Date: 08/19/05 (Computer Geeks)    Keywords: no keywords

Folks,

I would just like to run this passed you guys...

I need to set up a recovery image of a server so that we can a) quickly get the server back to its pristine configuration if it were to get hit by lightning or something and b) quickly create clones of the machine.

I know there are imaging apps like Ghost, but we don't have any spare cash.

What I thought was perhaps using qemu to set up a virtual machine (or a number of different VMs representing different configurations) and then - somehow - write the .img file to a new hard disk (when needed) and make it bootable.

Does that sound like it might fly or is there an easier way?

Just thinking out loud at the moment :)

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