Stooney Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 I'm looking for some software that will image hard drives over a network. I need it to work like the way Novell does it, only without Novell. Basically it needs to be able to grab an image off the server and image this specified drive with it. I don't need it to work the other way and backup. All I need is to be able to sit at a client computer and pull the image off the server and image a drive with it, all without requiring windows to be available. So like pxe or something. This is for a small school with ~100 computers, most of which are 1 of 3 models. I want to have an image for each model on the server for when kids break/virus infest/etc the OS, I can just pull the image from the server and have the PC back up and running in however long the xfer/image takes. I used to use Novell for this at another school, but Novell isn't available here. I'm not looking for anyone to do my research for me, just hoping someone already has experience/recommendations for this as I would assume it's not that uncommon of a thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted February 19, 2009 Share Posted February 19, 2009 I use a ghostcast server. If you get ghost solution suite it comes with a 3com tftpd server and pxe server. As long as your clients can pxe boot you're good to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stooney Posted February 20, 2009 Author Share Posted February 20, 2009 Ty jcombs_31. I looked into it and it's pretty much exactly what I need. Unfortunately, it would cost around $2,380 as you have to purchase a license for each computer that will be managed through it. That's the price for 100 computers. While that's not a bad price, it's way out of the budget I have to work with. I will try to find some sort of opensource or less expensive solution. Anything is better than having to reinstall os/install drivers for each computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcombs_31 Posted February 20, 2009 Share Posted February 20, 2009 A quick search turned up this http://sourceforge.net/projects/freeghost/ There are always ways to aquire ghost for testing purposes.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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