Re: OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

2012-01-05 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Ted Gould wrote: > I haven't used it, but I think that Orchestra does something like this. > Not sure about the FreeBSD support, but I think it just works off of > disk images, so it wouldn't care. Just took a look at it, and it is looking a lot like Satellite or S

Re: OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

2012-01-05 Thread Ted Gould
I haven't used it, but I think that Orchestra does something like this. Not sure about the FreeBSD support, but I think it just works off of disk images, so it wouldn't care. http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/10/getting-started-with-ubuntu-orchestra-servers-in-concert/ --Ted On Thu, 2

Re: OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

2012-01-05 Thread Ben Browning
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:22 PM, Stephen wrote: > check out clonezilla that combined with drbl can do what you are thinking > about. > > clonezilla.org Nope. I forgot to mention I looked at that one too. It doesn't do software raid stuff, which I need it to. It also doesn't seem to be very polish

Re: OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

2012-01-05 Thread Stephen
check out clonezilla that combined with drbl can do what you are thinking about. clonezilla.org On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Ben Browning wrote: > Hey guys, > > I'm poking around looking for a solid system imaging solution for > automated deployment/installation of new servers in a wide varie

Re: backup entire system

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Havens
what in the world. I ran out of diskspace. huh? why didn't I run out the first time I did this? Well before it ran out of memory There were a total of 8 files each 700MB (well, #7 was probably smaller). The first time I did this there was a total of 5 files with #5 being more than 600MB. I

OSS distributed system imaging solutions?

2012-01-05 Thread Ben Browning
Hey guys, I'm poking around looking for a solid system imaging solution for automated deployment/installation of new servers in a wide variety of datacenters across links of varying speeds and costs. I'm looking for something I can use on Linuxes, FreeBSD, and Windows, as well as something for phy

Re: backup entire system

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Havens
it's weird. I archived 200GB in about 5 or 6 hours. I split the archive into 700MB files which turned out to be 5 files. The first file took about an hour to create. I then split my drive into 50GB partitions and am archiving the first partition. (the only one with any data on it) It took 15 m

Re: PLUGdev this Thursday - Cancelled So what Do you want for 2012?

2012-01-05 Thread Stephen
I would like to know more about AD/LDAP integration personally especially from the aspect of a windows machine authing to Linux or vice versa. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Ed wrote: > Sorry Folks - we are now looking for a February Presenter - lets get > some suggestions as to what you want t

PLUGdev this Thursday - Cancelled So what Do you want for 2012?

2012-01-05 Thread Ed
Sorry Folks - we are now looking for a February Presenter - lets get some suggestions as to what you want to hear about, maybe what you want to present about in 2012. --- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe,

Re: backup entire system

2012-01-05 Thread Michael Havens
well, I just restored my system using fsarchiver. YIPEE! I did it right. It restored. It took like half an hour to restore 23GB out of a 200GB archive (meaning 23GB of data and 177GB of empty space). Is that good or bad? On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > thanks for the help

New years Resolution suggestion from the EFF

2012-01-05 Thread Stephen
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/12/newyears-resolution-full-disk-encryption-every-computer-you-own I think its a wroth while consideration, especially for those who use laptops and keep personal data on them. -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling ov

Re: moving home to /dev/sda6

2012-01-05 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Man, that procedure is awfully complicated... My take: 1.- Boot from any live CD (This is ALWAYS a powerful tool!) 2.- Create a filesystem in your new home partition. 3.- mkdir -p /mnt/{old,new} 4.- mount -text? /dev/sdaX /mnt/old 5.- mount -text? /dev/sdaY /mnt/new 7.- rsync -va --checksum /mn

Re: moving home to /dev/sda6

2012-01-05 Thread Stephen
There is probably more to it tthan what i am about to tell you, however this may get you going on a direction that is more digestible. format the new partition as needed, but before mounting rename your old home directory (aka /home) to /home.old. use mkdir to create /home but leave it empty and t