Re: [Trinux-talk] Q - Timothy Burt - Backup or clone hard drive

[Timothy B. <tb...@ar...>]

Better to mail them the floppy, with an ssh login configured.  Then you
can make adjustments, monitor progress and fix problems during the
upgrade.

And never leave your office. :-)

Always good for the outer offices to have, in case their machine won't
boot.  You can ssh into Trinux, and look at your disk, or what is left of
it.  Even fdisk and reformat it from the command line.  And overnight them
a new disk drive, if all else fails.  With Trinux, you can do the setup
from your chair.

Of course, with a script in /tux/last, it can become a brutally efficient 
Windows exterminator.

On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, P60 wrote:

> 
> 
> > I will definitely look at it but the problem is that I doing the restore
> > over a wan i.e. very low bandwidth.
> >
> Thinking about 430 machines, walking around with a CD, will be more a
> problem I guess. If you're handy on writing scripts, you could have each
> machine that already has the Debian-stuff on it serving (with netcat again)
> to the NT ones who you'll have to boot from the trinux netfloppy with a nice
> little script in /tux/last. That way you'll only have to walk around once
> with a single floppy. Then have a nap :-). The lower the bandwidth, the
> longer the nap.
> 
> Arne
> 
> 
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