A Web-based backup/restore method for intel-based PC's

Proceedings of the 11th Conference on Systems Administration, LISA 1997

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages 71-77

  Barnett, Tyler ^a   McPeek, Kyle ^a,b   Lile, Larry S ^b   Hyatt, Ray ^b  

^a LEXMARK INTERNATIONAL INC   (United States)

^b USA

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; RESTORATION; UNIX; WEBSITES;

COST BENEFITS; ETHERNET NETWORKS; HARD DRIVES; IDENTICAL SYSTEMS; INDIVIDUAL SYSTEMS; PC HARDWARE; UNIX SERVERS; USAGE STATISTICS;

IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

EID: 85094659651     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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1. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook11.html.
2. We had to use 2.88 MB diskette drives and diskettes to hold the OS/2 boot diskette and networking.
3. http://www.corpsys.com.
4. http://www.freebsd.org.
5. http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/disklessx/disklessx.html.
6. http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/multios/multios.html.
7. http://www.3com.com/products/switches.html . The ethernet switch we use is called a Linkswitch 1000.
8. http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook50.html.
9. http://www.apache.org.
10. http://www.adaptec.com/work/AHA2940UWOF.html.
11. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/2.0.5R/notes.html . Only release 2.0.5 and beyond has tag queuing.
12. Found in /usr/src/sys/i386/conf . Copy GENERIC to your own file, and edit it to suit.
13. http://lake.canberra.edu.au/pub/samba/.
14. http://developer.intel.com/design/motherbd/vs/ index.htm.
15. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/benchmarks.html.
16. http://www.intel.com/network/doc/6285/index.htm.
17. http://www.isc.org/isc/dhcp.html.
18. Redundant footnote. If names Wall, Christiansen, or Schwartz don't ring a bell, seek professional help.
19. We settled on the "-1" option, the fastest compression method. See "man gzip." 21http:/www.symantec.com/nu/fs_nu8win.html.
20. WIPEINFO.EXE is part of Norton Utilities 8.0.
21. Refer to FreeBSD SCB paging description by Justin T. Gibbs in /usr/src/sys/i386/scsi/aic7xxx.c.
22. NT 4.0 turns off this Adaptec feature when it loads.
23. We use 1 GB Seagate ST31055W, and 2 GB Seagate ST32171W. Both discontinued and inexpensive.