FOG server

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FOG server

Postby mciv » Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:24 pm

I've never used FOG but I've heard great things about it. Now that I'm preparing to setup an HDA for a very small private school I'm wondering about using FOG on the HDA given that space and $ don't allow for multiple servers. Anyone done this or does anyone have any thoughts for or against it?

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Re: FOG server

Postby mciv » Sat Jul 25, 2009 8:31 pm

It was mentioned that some people may not know what FOG is. A FOG server is a cloning solution similar to Ghost. Images can be stored than cloned over the network making imaging much easier as you add machines. Here is a link to the project, http://www.fogproject.org/.

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Re: FOG server

Postby cpg » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:29 pm

Ah, ok.

Did you know that PBA does that?

It's showing it's age, so we were considering scraping it for clonezilla. Looks like FOG is another option in that space!

Also, by moving to PXEKnife, we can have them all simultaneously and more (antivirus, OS boot disks, nettop booting ...).
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Re: FOG server

Postby mciv » Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:22 am

No I didn't realize that. I thought the PBA was just for backups so I hadn't really looked into it. I will either use that or I might try FOG. Thanks.

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Re: FOG server

Postby bsk » Sun Jul 26, 2009 9:16 am

PBA does the cloning thing and backs it up to your hda, all you have to do is run the cd again to restore it, just select restore instead of backup.

It makes a *bare metal backup* so to speak, as it clones your hard drive into an image. Just like FOG.

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Re: FOG server

Postby moredruid » Mon Jul 27, 2009 3:51 am

just to chime in: it works perfectly (for me at least).

I've done several backups/restores.
I've also had a workstation disk crash on me, so I bought a new HDD (slightly larger than the previous) and did a restore... it did throw a message about the disk not being the same size but it copied the image and it booted without issues (image was windows/linux partitions)
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