remote disk imaging

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Thu Nov 8 17:55:18 UTC 2007


On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 11:04:31AM -0500, teddy mills wrote:
> I have linux servers at a remote location. (any Linux variant you want)
> I want to completely wipe the remote servers and rebuild them.
> (ie. image file or NFS /GHOST, rsync whatever you can think of)
> 
> The only way I can access the remote server is through the Internet.
> I have no remote KVM access.

I wouldn't try then.  Access to the boot loader is pretty much required
to do it safely.

> What are some reliable ways to do this?

There isn't any reliable way.

> Bandwidth is not an issue.
> I thought about using NFS, or PXE...or some GHOSTing.

People have installed debian by using debootstrap to generate a new root
environment in a chroot and then reboot pointing the boot loader at the
new root device (pretty much has to be a seperate partition or device).
There used to be script around to replace redhat with debian almost
automatically for people who had hosted servers that came with some
ancient customized redhat version so they could replace it with
something useable instead.  Not sure if those are still being
maintained.

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