Linux: q's on backing up and restoring...

[SpongeBobPalmBay]

Company recently installed 10 computers to run test equipment. Operators use the computers to load test programs/data/etc... We have only had the systems for a few weeks and 2 have been screwed up by people playing around on them. I see the RED HAT logo when the computers boot...

What software is available to 'clone' a hard drive to a CD so we could restore next time disaster strikes?

I'm guessing we can not use a USB CD burner with this OS. What about a parallel CD burner that would work with Red hat? What software/hardware would I need?

o yeah... GNOME is the interface on the computers.

Thanks for reading...

 

[Nothinman]

A USB CDR would probably be easier to get working than a parallel one, although I havn't used either personally.

If you want, you can just use a dos boot disk and ghost.

 

[SpongeBobPalmBay]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
A USB CDR would probably be easier to get working than a parallel one, although I havn't used either personally.

If you want, you can just use a dos boot disk and ghost.

So... GNOME supports USB? What is a good package for bruning... 'Nero' for Linux yet?

 

[Nothinman]

Gnome is just the user interface, Linux supports USB and has for some time.

I don't know what burning packages come with RedHat, there has to be something on the CDs though. I always just use the command line tools myself (cdrecord and cdrdao).

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Gnome is just the user interface, Linux supports USB and has for some time.

The BSDs had USB support first 😉

I don't know what burning packages come with RedHat, there has to be something on the CDs though. I always just use the command line tools myself (cdrecord and cdrdao).

Most of the gui tools are just front ends to cdrecord I believe.

 

[Nothinman]

Most of the gui tools are just front ends to cdrecord I believe.

True, but a lot of them handle things differently. For instance, I know there are some that will convert MP3/OGG files to WAV automatically when burning Audio CDs and some that won't.

 

[dvogel]

If you stop giving these people access to the root account then they will not be able to change anything crucial. If they need some privledges of root then look into sudo (it is a program which allow certain users to execute certain commands as root). Furthermore, you can usually give any user the exact level of access you care to give up through file-system permissions.

 

[SpongeBobPalmBay]

Originally posted by: dvogel
If you stop giving these people access to the root account then they will not be able to change anything crucial. If they need some privledges of root then look into sudo (it is a program which allow certain users to execute certain commands as root). Furthermore, you can usually give any user the exact level of access you care to give up through file-system permissions.

ok... so this might be the best bet... thanks to everyone for the advice...

 

[jonmullen]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Gnome is just the user interface, Linux supports USB and has for some time.

The BSDs had USB support first 😉

I don't know what burning packages come with RedHat, there has to be something on the CDs though. I always just use the command line tools myself (cdrecord and cdrdao).

Most of the gui tools are just front ends to cdrecord I believe.

How did I know I would see you in here spreading your BSD propaganda 😉

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: jonmullen

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Nothinman
Gnome is just the user interface, Linux supports USB and has for some time.

The BSDs had USB support first 😉

I don't know what burning packages come with RedHat, there has to be something on the CDs though. I always just use the command line tools myself (cdrecord and cdrdao).

Most of the gui tools are just front ends to cdrecord I believe.

How did I know I would see you in here spreading your BSD propaganda 😉

1. Its true. 2. I provided some information related to something the thread was leaning towards. So Ha! 😛