Making mkCDrec PXE aware

Gratien D'haese (IT3)

Make CD-ROM recovery (mkCDrec) makes a bootable (El-Torito) disaster recovery image, including backups of the GNU/Linux system to the CD-ROM (or CD-RW) if space permits, or to a multi-volume CD-ROM set. Backups can also be stored on another local disk, NFS/CIFS disk or (remote) tape.

There are a few reasons to make mkCDrec PXE (network booting) aware:

• Faster recovery possible over the network ? no hassle with CDs or tapes
• Cloning to other (almost) identical systems become a piece of cake
• Added value for mkCDrec (new feature)
• Building central repository of disaster recovery images of your computer park

We will guide you through all the steps necessary to make mkCDrec PXE aware. No modifications to mkCDrec are required! Run mkCDrec in combination with a NFS share and run one additional script deliverd with mkCDrec (prepPXE.sh).

• Talk slides (zipped pdf, 708Kb)
• Talk slides + notes (zipped pdf, 554Kb)
• mkcdrec.ota.be

Open Source Centrum Vlaanderen

This talk explains why there should be an OSCV.

• How will the members of the OSCV co-operate?
•  Which topics will be tackled?
•  Which activities will be enrolled? Towards who?
• What is the goal of the organisation and who shall benefit from its actions?

• Talk slides (zipped pdf, 400Kb)

Anti-virus scanning with ClamAV

Robert Sprockeels (Bits Over Atoms)

Even if Linux is - until now - unsensitive to them, the Windows workstations and servers inside the network can suffer a lot from virus attacks. This is why installing a good virus scanner on the mail server or/and on the internal GNU/Linux+Samba file server(s) can be a very good idea.

The Clam AntiVirus is a very efficient commercial-grade GPL anti-virus scanner.

• Talk slides (pdf, 602Kb)
• www.clamav.net