"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...) -- Sacha Chua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Ateneo CS faculty geekette interests: emacs, gnu/linux, making computer science education fun http://sacha.free.net.ph/ -- 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
