Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process?

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 29, 2011 @04:40AM 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?

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Re:Homebrew by hairyfeet · 2011-11-29 08:09 · Score: 5, Interesting

Hell here's a better idea nobody has thought of...hire a college kid, throw him a few bucks and have him help you. lets a kid earn a little extra Xmas money, certainly quicker than having to write a bunch of scripts, and its a nice thing to do for Xmas.

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