YAGI
(Yet Another Ghost Installer)
YAGI is completly based on unix standard programms and deamons.
Additional programms written by me are under BSD-Licencse.
YAGI can backup harddrive's from any maschine which is able to boot over network.
It doesn't make any difference if SCSI/IDE or reiserfs/ext3/NTFS is on the backup maschine installed. YAGI works hardware and filesystem independent.
Some pictures below will show how it works.
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YAGI will completely boot over LAN. Your computer just have to an new NIC which is capable of PXE booting. |
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After the DHCP-Server provides an valid IP-Address, the tftp sends PXE-Linux to the maschine and... |
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...shows the yagi-boot prompt. After booting the system via NFS, mounting NFS-root, creating RAMS disks, and so on... |
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...you can start the creating of an clone image with ‘cookdisk <servername/ip-adress> <imagename>’. In following entered 'cookdisk lenny s2410'. [s2410 should stand for toshiba satellite 2400-series]. Sorry for the bad picture, I had no better camera. |
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On another-console you can start YAGI-Systemoverview to watch some maschine based data and the the progress of the image writing/reading. It works for both. |
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For writing the image back to the laptop use eatdisk. The syntax is the same as cookdisk will use it. Sorry again for the bad picture. |
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After succesfull writting the image you will this this prompt. You can now turn off the maschine. There is no need for shuting down. |
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YAGI is well tested and stable, but yagi is still in its infancy, a lot of improvments can be done. One great mobile Computer Manufactorer uses this for installation of their maschines. For more and detailed information please read my Diploma Thesis. |
Have phun on the device.
Viel Spass am Geraet.