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Offline newbie000

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PXE netbooting with restoring backup.tgz
« on: April 04, 2012, 02:18:10 AM »
Hi all,

Is it possible to apply backup.tgz automatically (opt and home configuration) contents after PXE boot?

My need is to do PXE boot a PCs and they will have the same image and configuration (same .xsession etc) with the TC server..


Thanks for the input.

Offline tsaukpaetra

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Re: PXE netbooting with restoring backup.tgz
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2012, 02:46:42 AM »
I personally solved this by making a custom .tcz package with the relevant files and specifying that in the .lst file I provided on the append= line. It worked like a charm after I got a few commands to actually find files following symlinks. (It just so happens that making a package that puts a script in ~/.X.d/ won't get executed because the .xsession script won't follow links ;) )

Offline tinypoodle

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Re: PXE netbooting with restoring backup.tgz
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2012, 06:20:52 AM »
IMHO, it might be equally interesting to have an option to make a backup as to restore one when not having any persistent storage mounted; i.e. with a specified path in rootfs.
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