Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process?
SOURCE: SLASHDOT • 2011-11-29
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... read more »