Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:11:40 +0800 From: "Craig Beasland" <craig@hotmix.com.au> To: "'Michael R. Wayne'" <wayne@staff.msen.com> Cc: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: CD backup of client "appliances"? Message-ID: <A1FB33621BC3D311872D004005F62F6C57D2@MANDELA> In-Reply-To: <A1FB33621BC3D311872D004005F62F6C03260C@MANDELA>
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Hi there, Norton produce a product called Ghost that should do what you want. We got a "free" copy with a motherboard we purchases, but you can buy it separately. Cheers craig > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Michael R. Wayne > Sent: Thursday, 24 February 2000 14:03 > To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: CD backup of client "appliances"? > > > > We've been setting up FreeBSD boxes for clients to do some combination > of squid, email, firewalling as well as some custom services. We > KNOW that these clients will never do proper backups. Ideally, > we'd like to take a completely configured box and build a CD which > would contain a script which, when run, would partition a new disk > to be exactly the same as what we laid down on this one (even if > the new one is much larger) and do restores of each of the > filesystems. > The clients get to lose on their data, we just want a fast restore. > We'd tape the CD to the inside of the box until they call us in > panic mode. > > This seems fairly atraightforward, I dug through ports but > did not locate > such a beaast. Anyone got any leads? > > /\/\ \/\/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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