begin Monday 05 July 2004 13:27, Lee Kransen quote:

Hi,

I am new to multicasting and to UDPCast. I was wondering if it is possible to save a complete system to an image file, preferable lzoped or gziped, and then multicast the image to a number of computers using UDPCast?

Best regards,

Lee Kransen

Yes, it is. To save the image, just run the udpcast receiver on your fileserver machine, from the command line:

udp-receiver -f image-file.bin

To restore it, start a sender:

udp-sender -f image-file.bin

Note: if your fileserver machine has more than one interface, you need to specify the interface that you are using:

udp-receiver -f image-file.bin -i eth0 udp-sender -f image-file.bin -i eth0

Compression/decompression happens on the machines to be imaged.

Alain