[olug] Ghost and Linux servers

[Craig Wolf]

Sorry that I did not reply earlier to anyone's post.  Been outside of email range all weekend.  Honey do list was QUITE long.  8<)

I looked at g4u before and it requires WAY too much HD space on the server.  It does a copy of the HD to the server first and then a tar.  Odd but that is what I saw when I tested it 6 months ago.  would have been a great solution for us here but HD space on the server is at a PREMIUM.  Thanx for the idea though.

I need to be able to take a machine, tweak it perfect and push it up to the server.  I then need to be able to pull it down on any of the 6 machines with the "image".  I need to be able to images a down system quickly should it happen.  I do have access to Ghost 7.5+ corporate but I am open to anything that works.  

Thanx to all who have responded so far!!  I still have a couple weeks before I am under the gun so I am moving forward with ideas and then to test them...


Craig Wolf
Linux Web Server Support
Backup Supervisor
Desktop/Network Specialist
402-894-6283


>>> kjk_elec at ix.netcom.com 11/9/2003 >>>
Would g4u (ghost 4 unix) help you? 

g4u (ghost 4 unix) - Freshmeat:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/g4u/?topic_id=137%2C147%2C253 
g4u (ghost 4 unix) - Homepage:
http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/ 


OBrien, Timothy (Omaha Linux Users Group - OLUG) wrote:

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>>What point are you at?
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>>Are you looking for a way to backup/restore or just to
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>For my operation, I need to create an image on the server and/or on the
>second HD I installed in the system so when the end user FUBAR the current
>install I can reinstall the default image and I am done.
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>>or
>>1. boot from a Linux CD
>>2. nfs mount the server DIR
>>3. partition/mount the workstation drive
>>4. untar the image from the server
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>How much space does a tar take? Or, how much does tar compress the files?
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