Re: cross-platform bare metal remote restore system?

2010-04-08 Thread Amos Shapira
2010/4/7 Arie Skliarouk sklia...@gmail.com Probably too late, but will write my opinion anyway: I would set up netboot environment that each server is configured to boot from automatically (falling back to harddisk boot). The DHCP configuration is defined to include netboot configuration for

Re: cross-platform bare metal remote restore system?

2010-04-07 Thread Arie Skliarouk
Probably too late, but will write my opinion anyway: I would set up netboot environment that each server is configured to boot from automatically (falling back to harddisk boot). The DHCP configuration is defined to include netboot configuration for servers that are scheduled for reinstallation.

cross-platform bare metal remote restore system?

2010-03-10 Thread Ira Abramov
Howdie people! Got a client that needs a test environment where the disk on one specific server (maybe more in the future?) are wiped clean once in a while (so the performance tests always start at the same state). They want the same machine to be at alternate times installed with one of several

Re: cross-platform bare metal remote restore system?

2010-03-10 Thread Elazar Leibovich
When my parent's windows machine occasionally became too slow (as most undermaintained windows machine does). I tried to ease the situation like so: I divided the windows into a minimal C:\ partition which contained the windows directory, a d:\ which contained the rest of the data (program files,

Re: cross-platform bare metal remote restore system?

2010-03-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11 March 2010 00:11, Ira Abramov lists-linux...@ira.abramov.org wrote: On the short list are: * OpenQRM (an overkill, and I think avoiding full wipe is not easy) * G4L (I know nothing about it) * Partimage/PING (donno it, and it seems unmaintained) * Clonezilla (seems like the best