One suggestion, if you want quick backup and restores on an entire partition, your friend is partimage [1]. I've use partimage extensively when i needed to install 6 linux servers off a single image. Sure beats NFS install anytime, and you can customize the master installation first before actually cloning it.
Supported file systems are ext2/3, reiserfs, FAT16/32, HPFS, JFS, NTFS, XFS, UFS, HFS. You can have a master partimage server on the network, by the way. And of course, it's open source. :) [1] http://www.partimage.org On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Sacha Chua wrote: > "Dean Michael C. Berris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Certainly an LTSP setup would be impractical since the load on the > > network would be too much, and the power of the desktops wouldn't be put > > to good use. Remote file systems would be a problem, since at peak hours > > (10am-4pm) the activity would be outrageous. > > One of the things we're considering for the labs in Ateneo is rsync'd > backups. =) > > Current situation: Our computers run Windows, but they have Linux > partitions that are just large enough to store a .tar.gz of the > Windows filesystem for quick restores. However, we have not updated > this image in a while. > > We're thinking of keeping an uncompressed copy of the Windows > filesystem and using rsync to restore. If we need to restore from a > master copy, we can rsync over the network - rsync minimizes network > use by transferring only the changes (and some bookkeeping details). > rsync uses the CPU a lot, which is not a problem. > > I'd like to have an LDAP server in the future, but we're just working > on backup first. (I'm also using this as an excuse to sneak Linux use > into our labs, as the students are already using open-source tools > like Eclipse anyway...) > > -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
