Re: [Savannah-hackers] submission of sauvetar - savannah.nongnu.org

[Rudy Gevaert]

Hi,

I'm evaluating the project you submitted for approval in Savannah.

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:05:18PM -0400, address@hidden wrote:
> 
> A package was submitted to savannah.nongnu.org
> This mail was sent to address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> 
> St?phane GAUTIER <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
> License: gpl
> Other License: 
> Package: sauvetar
> System name: sauvetar
> Type: non-GNU
> 
> Description:
> The goal of this project is to provide an easy to use frontend for Partimage 
> software (http://www.partimage.org/).
> 
> Using Partimage isn't realy easy for people how haven't any informatical 
> knowledge. A lot of questions need to know the internal stucture of Linux 
> (/dev/hda, ...).
> 

"Linux" is just a kernel of a more complex system
that we like to refer to as GNU/Linux, to emphasize
the ideals of the Free Software movement.


Would you mind changing references to Linux as an OS
to GNU/Linux?

For more information, see
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html


> To use Sauvetar :
> 
> First, you must boot from a bootable device (cdrom,hard disk, lan,floppy (not 
> alone), ...). Then, you acced to a graphical interface with 3 or 4 choices :
> 
>       - local save/restore
> 
>       - network save/restore
> 
>       - multicast deployement
> 
>       - hard disk install (if you are on cdrom)
> 
> - local fonction :
> 
>         - When you want to make an image of your partition, the software only 
> asks 
> 
> easy questions, and proposes you default answers. If needed, it calculates 
> 
> the size of partition to create, calls Parted to create the storage 
> 
> partition. After that, it runs partimage to create the image of the selected 
> 
> partition.
> 
>         - When you want to restore,  if only one partion image is present on 
> the 
> 
> storage partition, you simply answer to a question like "do you want to 
> 
> restore the 'name' partition?", and the software will restore and reboot. If 
> 
> you have more than one partion, the software will propose you to choose the 
> 
> partition to restore, highligthing the default one.
> 
> 
> 
> - network :
> 
>         - The software propose you to save you partion image into a smb share 
> through 
> 
> the network. It asks you the name of the server, the share, the username, the 
> 
> password. After that, it asks for a name and description of your computer, it 
> 
> saves the partition image into the share and writes data in a database.
> 
>         - To restore, the software looks for the mac-address. If it finds it 
> in it's 
> 
> database, it directly proposes to restore the partition. The user can select 
> 
> any other one if he wants. If the software doesn't find the mac-address, it 
> 
> proposes to the user to choose the image he wants to restore, and warns him 
> 
> about the risk such an action.
> 
> - multicast :
> 
>         -  when you have prepare a clean bright and new image, you can deploy 
> it 
> 
> througth the network to a bunch of computers by using multicast.
> 
> URL :
> 
> http://harmonie.ac-orleans-tours.fr/cgi-bin/cvsweb/SauveTar-devel/


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Regards,

Rudy
> 
> http://wwwphp.ac-orleans-tours.fr/point-tice/    ( comming soon)
> 
> Other Software Required:
> knoppix or morfix
> 
> parted and py-parted
> 
> partimage
> 
> python
> 
> nfstools
> 
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