From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Feb 23 22:18:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from frontier.netnology.com.au (frontier.netnology.com.au [203.33.30.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D83E637BA11 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2000 22:18:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from craig@hotmix.com.au) Received: from marvin ([203.33.30.209]) by frontier.netnology.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA12329; Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:55:23 +0800 From: "Craig Beasland" To: "'Michael R. Wayne'" Cc: Subject: RE: CD backup of client "appliances"? Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 14:11:40 +0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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