[Gllug] Restoring and installing machines

[paul at ma1.se]

John Hearns wrote:
> Tushars talk also made me think of:
> 
> Mondo Rescue
> http://www.mondorescue.org/
> 
> When setting up a new server, all you need do is put in a CD (or two) or 
> a writeable DVD. The state of the system is snapshotted to a bootable 
> rescue disk. If the system is stolen, hacked or otherwise not working 
> etc. all you do is boot from this DVD and the system re-installs itself.
> In the jargon, "bare metal recovery" and for free.
> http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml
> 

For those wanting to re-image to Centos4 (especially useful on remotely 
hosted dedicated servers at 1&1 etc).

With work should do for re-imaging to any anaconda/kickstart based Linux 
ditribution, FC, RHEL etc..).

I have tried them and they work, but you do need to double check your 
boot loader network configuration before rebooting into the scripts. 
Both lilo and grub are supported.

http://forum.swsoft.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33036

kickstart is amazing when you explore the possibilities.


regards


Paul Lee
www.ma1.se



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