On Sat, Dec 04, 1999 at 10:13:17PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> I'd like to have a quick and easy way of sucking a given computer's
> hard drive image from the server should anything strange happen...
> Often enough I can't be there to solve the big problems, and the
> Cafe staff (yes... cafe as in coffee) have to switch a machine off,
> which *always* looks bad.
why are you copying disk images?
if i were you i'd mount most of the system ro, so it can't be damaged
(except by harddrive failure, in which case your screwed anyway)
(you should be able to mount /usr /lib /bin /sbin this way)
and then get the rest over nfs
since everyone's /etc is on a central machine, you get a nice way to
centrally administer everything too
(/tmp could be local (rw) too)
you get the speed of having just about everything on the local
machines, a damn nice way of configuring everything, and rebooting the
box isn't going to affect any of your filesystems
you could easily whip up some scripts to do this in an initrd, and
either load it off floppy or tftp from bootrom
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- Gus
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