[geeks] Disk images

[Michael Kaegler]

Once I needed to roll out a lab... had the image stored on a server, 
then created a boot CD. The CD partitioned the drive, formatted it, 
mounted it, and rsync'd from the server. You might just want to NFS 
mount and dd if its not a unix/bsd fs, but... we continue to use 
variations on that theme throughout all linux rollouts.

Much higher latency, but higher throughput. And its drop+forget. And 
fun to watch the blinkinlights/mrtg.

36 machines with 100mbit pulled their complete images from the 
1000mbit server in about 20 minutes. And we timed it so they all 
started at the same time, just to create higher load and freak the 
network guys out (this, of course, before I was a network guy).
-mKaegler


At 3:47 PM -0500 3/15/05, Atom wrote:
>Hey
>
>Does anybody know some "faster" way than 'dd' to create and restore 
>disk images in unix or *bsd.
>
>I need to do a whole bunch of machines soon and don't want to wait 
>30+ minutes * 600.
>
>-- Thomas
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