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Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process?

Posted by timothy on from the can-you-put-it-in-worm-form dept.

An anonymous reader writes "I am required to back up and wipe several hundred computers. Currently, this involves booting up each machine, running a backup script, turning the machine off, booting off a pendrive, and running some software that writes 0s to the drive several times. I was wondering if there was a faster solution. Like a server on an isolated network with a switch where I could just connect the computers up, turn them on and get the server to back up the data and wipe the drives." How would you go about automating this process?

2 of 253 comments (clear)

  1. Are you an hourly employee? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Then don't automate it.

  2. Use a screwdriver. by Scioccoballante · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Take the hard drives out of them, label them, and stick them in a closet.