On Sun, 15 Jun 2003 17:31, you wrote: > >at the ostc david has some disk mirroring server set up, I cannot remember > >the name of it, but it can image a harddrive over a network and store it > >on a server. > > Perhaps it is Norton's Ghost? We use that at school. OSTC use g4u, Ghost for Unix. It's a simple ftp based utility which has a home page here:-
http://rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de/~feyrer/g4u/ > >You can then restore the hard drive onto any number of workstations. he > >uses it to replicate setups and restore machines to a known state. > > One problem we have at school with this is the speed. At times it can go > _extremely_ slow. Now of course I don't know how fast it goes on David's > network, he can perhaps enlighten us, but perhaps it would be a good idea, > if we were to do it this way, to have the machines ghosted before hand. > Otherwise it can take a good portion of the day just to get these boxes > prepared. Thanks for your concern, but I promise you g4u is correctly set up at the OSTC and actually works properly there. It uses the full bandwidth available. -- C. S.
