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Things that rock: PXE Booting Acronis

Submitted by nhruby on Sat, 2008-02-09 14:50.

I'm doing some work on fixing up our build and provisioning environment, and found the following blog post for booting Acronis via PXE:
http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/network-administrator/pxe-aka-pre-execution-environment-and-acronis-part-2/

I ended up using the kernel and ramdisk from the Acronis Universal Restore CD which seemed to work just fine. Sadly, my wifi at home is acting just funky enough that testing a restore is pretty darn painful. I'll give it a whirl Monday.

This is a fairly minor thing, but I never end up never having an Acronis CD (or blank cd to make one) when I need it. Or I'm hundred of miles away from the server I want to run Acronis on and can't put the CD in the drive. This makes Acronis a quick "F12" away no matter what (assuming I have a KVM, of course :)

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Professional Development in Toronto- April 7-9, 2008
Submitted by Bruce Cole on Sun, 2008-03-23 20:57.

This year we have over 90 tutorials and breakout sessions including several sessions in Professional Development. Tom Limoncelli, Author, will be presenting "Time Management for System Administrators" and "Help! Everyone Hates Our IT Department (And How To Change That). We also have seminars on Risk Management Fundamentals, Negotiating for IT Products, IT Best Practice Standards and over 80 more sessions, keynotes and presentations.

Visit http://www.it360.ca/2008/conf_glance_day.cfm for all the details.
Two free keynotes are of particular interest by David Rice, Author of "Geekonomics: The Real Cost of Insecure Software" and Matthew Glotzbach, Product Management Director Google Inc.

Bruce Cole (bcole@plumcom.ca)
IT360 Inc.
www.it360.ca
Sys Admin & IT Conference

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