cross-platform bare metal remote restore system?

[Amos Shapira]

2010/4/7 Arie Skliarouk <skliarie at 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 servers that are scheduled
> for reinstallation.
>
> Netboot system will automatically reinstall the server using specified
> image, notify DHCP on success and reboot.
>

What was the question, again?


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> Arie
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> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 02:41, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> On 11 March 2010 00:11, Ira Abramov <Lists-Linux-IL at 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 candidate ATM)
>> > * FOG (aka freeghost - seems pretty good as well)
>>
>> I haven't tried all the options in the list but as far as my experience
>> goes:
>> 1. G4L wasn't very useable back when we tried it
>> 2. Clonezilla rocks
>>
>> We use Clonezilla to backup legacy windows servers for rainy days.
>>
>> --Amos
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