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  Ask Slashdot: Networked Back-Up/Wipe Process?

  Posted: November 29th, 2011, 5:40pm CET by timothy

  Tags:  business  

  An anonymous reader writes "I am required to back up and wipe several hundred computers. Currently, this involves booting up each machine, running a backup script, turning the machine off, booting off a pendrive, and running some software that writes 0s to the drive several times. I was wondering if there was a faster solution. Like a server on an isolated network with a switch where I could just connect the computers up, turn them on and get the server to back up the data and wipe the drives." How would you go about automating this process?

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