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Idea #13320: Ubuntu Centralized Image Installation/Recovery/Backup

Written by roaksoax the 17 Sep 08 at 00:11. Category: Others. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
The idea here is to have an application, which will run on a server in a LAN, and will help us manage multiple clients (Server or Desktops) in the LAN.

By this I mean having an application that helps us manage the Server/Desktop client through a centralized server and that will allow us to create images of the installed OS (Ubuntu) in the client machine, and restore it when needed, doing all this from the Centralized Server.

This idea emerged from the need of having such tool on Computer Labs (In Schools or Universities), where they regularly need to reinstall programs or an OS on their machines if something goes wrong with one of it. So, by having such application, we would be able to restore images remotly from the centralized server to the client machine, and this will aid the administration of a computer lab.

Similar to what RIS (Remote Installation Services) is, but just for Ubuntu.
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Written by roaksoax the 17 Sep 08 at 00:11.
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lutfiarab wrote on the 17 Sep 08 at 14:52
Clonezilla already on ubuntu repository
You can use for this
may be like norton ghost corporate

Xander21c wrote on the 17 Sep 08 at 15:01
Could be interesting to has such a tool integrate in ubuntu by default, also as an alternative to the tools mentioned by
lutfiarab

mysterious1der wrote on the 17 Sep 08 at 15:12
Yes, this functionality is already provided by Clonezilla, which is an already functional and mature package. Let's not reinvent the wheel.

gQuigs wrote on the 17 Sep 08 at 19:44
Clonezilla doesn't appear to be in the repository, and this could take it much further than that. +1

jjesse wrote on the 17 Sep 08 at 19:50
If this is discussed at UDS I would love to be able to be there and also help discuss this.

More tools are needed to help deploy this in corporate environments.

Exactly like RIS but for Ubuntu, a big +1 on this from me.

Jonathan

jcastro (Brainstorm admin) wrote on the 25 Sep 08 at 17:44
Check out Cobbler - I believe someone (Soren?) is working on getting Ubuntu supported on it.

https://fedorahosted.org/cobbler

I've done a PXE installer setup with multiple images and whatnot by hand and it would be awesome if we could get something like this ootb.

(Slightly different from having images of machines but could probably overlap in functionality enough to consider one tool for everything)

qense (Idea reviewer) wrote on the 26 Sep 08 at 13:55
Something interesting is Radmin, a tool we've deployed at the Mac-lab at our school is Radmin . The server runs on a virtual Ubuntu Server. It is a nice tool but the Linux client is still alpha and hasn't got a graphical client.

I think it's worth to take a look at, especially since it has support for the three major OSes(with an exception for the server, which doesn't run on Windows).


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