Very good, I needed this on my upcoming project. --- "ian sison (mailing list)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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
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