[TriLUG] OT: Removable Storage Suggestions

[Steven Blanchard]

I've been wondering about this for a while.  Microsoft has a tool
called 'sysprep' which allows you to create a mini setup for imaging
systems.  That coupled with some of the userspace ntfs tools for linux
(ntfsclone in particular) could be a powerful combination.  For small
scale use, DVDs or even an external HDD would be perfect. For larger
scale, a net boot linux which could either pull or accept a push of an
image. Maybe even use multicast MDP to do large labs.

~steven

On 12/8/05, Brian Henning <brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> Hi Guys,
>    I've hit upon an idea that I'm sure is probably popular and I'd just
> never thought of it..  but now that I'm having to rebuild a badly
> spyware-infected machine, I've realized it'd be awesome if I had a ghost
> image of each machine in pristine state, so when something like this
> happens again (invariable with these users...), I can simply back up
> their data and restore the image instead of going through the day-long
> task of a clean install..
>
> So here's what I'm looking for:  I'd like suggestions on an inexpensive
> medium for storing each image, which will likely average between 5 and
> 10 GB.  I'm thinking maybe one of the recordable DVD formats.
>
> Other suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> See y'all tonight.
>
> ~B
>
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