Re: [tlug] System management software?

[Larry Stanbery <lstanber@example.com>]

On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 01:53  PM, 
patrick.niessen@example.com wrote:
> [ stuff about Symantec/Norton Ghost]
> ...
> I've seen this being done manually using Red Hat / WinNT4, and then 
> simply
> copying all NT partition files, but it requires a lot of fiddling and 
> you
> need a FAT partition.  DD will most likely to a sector to sector copy 
> so
> takes really long ...

I've been thinking about Ghost, and it might work, but there's the 
annoying bits that I have to have an NT/2k/XP system floating around to 
"manage" stuff...

The second bit, doing it with RH and copying the NT partition files, 
could work -- it requires fiddling, though, as you point out...  And 
"dd" could take forever.  As an option, however, if I go for FAT, I can 
use "rsync" to clean things up, instead of "dd":  this would result in 
a more "vulnerable" filesystem (no permissions), but more easily 
cleaned -- this might result in more frequent maintenance, but likely 
more easy.  (If ntfs writes were "safe", things would be much easier -- 
permissions locks to reduce abuse, and "rsync" to clean up anyway.)  As 
an additional bit moving me to "rsync", XP and its ilk should 
(hopefully) fit in a 2GB partition, reducing the space we have to 
scour...

Also...
On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 11:27  PM, Stuart Bouyer wrote:
> ...
> You might want to try partimage (http://www.partimage.org/) or g4u
> (http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/), or this link seems to be doing something
> similair to what you want (http://www.cs.inf.ethz.ch/CoPs/patagonia/)
> ...

The Patagonia link may prove very useful...  I notice they use System 
Commander (a proprietary product) to do booting -- this could likely be 
replaced with some interesting config files for GRUB.

Thanks, again, for the input -- now to find some victims, urm, test 
systems... =)

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Larry Stanbery, RHCE
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