Hi!

For dozens of univercity PCs I need schedule restore - whole day
students use & spoil PC and next morning on first power-on PCs system
disk is restored to yesterday's state. Can I perform this using some
version of acroins true image?

In "Version comparisons" they (acronis) wrote:
Scheduling:
When - Once, Daily, ...
What - Backup
Where - Agent
so, as i understand, there is no restore in their sheduler...

If this cant been performed explicitely in TI program may be it can be
done using windows scheduler? If not, what you can advice me: may be
such functionality exists in Norton Ghost or somewere else?

The other way is aceptable (need some coding): a boot manager with a
scheduler (start other OS (DOS) on scheduler event and in that OS
preform restore in startup script file). Is there such boot-managers?
I've tried acronis os loader, xosl and smart boot manager, and, of
couse, there is no scheduler in them. XOSL and SBM are GNU open source
but they are to complex for me to add scheduler to them. May be you can
advice me an Open Source boot manager working DOS config.sys like?

Thanks!

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"DPP" <dp.sub@mail.ru> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> For dozens of univercity PCs I need schedule restore - whole day
> students use & spoil PC and next morning on first power-on PCs system
> disk is restored to yesterday's state. Can I perform this using some
> version of acroins true image?
>
> In "Version comparisons" they (acronis) wrote:
> Scheduling:
> When - Once, Daily, ...
> What - Backup
> Where - Agent
> so, as i understand, there is no restore in their sheduler...
>
> If this cant been performed explicitely in TI program may be it can be
> done using windows scheduler? If not, what you can advice me: may be
> such functionality exists in Norton Ghost or somewere else?
>
> The other way is aceptable (need some coding): a boot manager with a
> scheduler (start other OS (DOS) on scheduler event and in that OS
> preform restore in startup script file). Is there such boot-managers?
> I've tried acronis os loader, xosl and smart boot manager, and, of
> couse, there is no scheduler in them. XOSL and SBM are GNU open source
> but they are to complex for me to add scheduler to them. May be you can
> advice me an Open Source boot manager working DOS config.sys like?
>
> Thanks!
>
With Acronis You get the option to create a self booting Acronis CD. You do
that.
While the system is running, and stable, you do a full backup.
You would need to do this to, perhaps an external HD (USB ?).
Computer gets Knackered. Plug in USB drive, Insert Acronis CD, and boot from
it.
You can then re-install the system backup. HTH.
best wishes..OJ

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DPP wrote...
>
>Hi!
>
>For dozens of univercity PCs I need schedule restore - whole day
>students use & spoil PC and next morning on first power-on PCs system
>disk is restored to yesterday's state. Can I perform this using some
>version of acroins true image?
>
>In "Version comparisons" they (acronis) wrote:
>Scheduling:
>When - Once, Daily, ...
>What - Backup
>Where - Agent
>so, as i understand, there is no restore in their sheduler...
>
>If this cant been performed explicitely in TI program may be it can be
>done using windows scheduler? If not, what you can advice me: may be
>such functionality exists in Norton Ghost or somewere else?
>
>The other way is aceptable (need some coding): a boot manager with a
>scheduler (start other OS (DOS) on scheduler event and in that OS
>preform restore in startup script file). Is there such boot-managers?
>I've tried acronis os loader, xosl and smart boot manager, and, of
>couse, there is no scheduler in them. XOSL and SBM are GNU open source
>but they are to complex for me to add scheduler to them. May be you can
>advice me an Open Source boot manager working DOS config.sys like?

If I understand you correctly, you are trying to do an _unattended_
restore, which sounds to be difficult, if not impossible.

Acronis TI can do backup on-the-fly (i.e. when the OS is running.)
But restore needs to boot up to TI (? on Linus) so that Windows is not
running. That may be the the reason why there is no schedule task for
restore.

There is some possible ways to prevent students from "damaging" an OS.
First, there are some tools to finely control who can access what programs
when they login Windows. I can't remember the name of the tool I once used.

Second, even if someone has changed some settings or download some files
to the PC, you can use "rsync" to periodically restore your system drives
from a snapshot, while Windows is still running. Although I never try this
method myself, this is the way our sysadmin did on a Sun Solaris box in
order to keep the OS "constant" in my previous work place a few years ago.

So, do some googling and I hope you can find some useful tools from the web.

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"DPP" <dp.sub@mail.ru> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> For dozens of univercity PCs I need schedule restore - whole day
> students use & spoil PC and next morning on first power-on PCs system
> disk is restored to yesterday's state. Can I perform this using some
> version of acroins true image?
>
> In "Version comparisons" they (acronis) wrote:
> Scheduling:
> When - Once, Daily, ...
> What - Backup
> Where - Agent
> so, as i understand, there is no restore in their sheduler...
>
> If this cant been performed explicitely in TI program may be it can be
> done using windows scheduler? If not, what you can advice me: may be
> such functionality exists in Norton Ghost or somewere else?
>
> The other way is aceptable (need some coding): a boot manager with a
> scheduler (start other OS (DOS) on scheduler event and in that OS
> preform restore in startup script file). Is there such boot-managers?
> I've tried acronis os loader, xosl and smart boot manager, and, of
> couse, there is no scheduler in them. XOSL and SBM are GNU open source
> but they are to complex for me to add scheduler to them. May be you can
> advice me an Open Source boot manager working DOS config.sys like?
>
> Thanks!
>

Have a look at goback http://www.symantec.com/goback/ does just what you
want

Shadow

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shadow wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Have a look at goback http://www.symantec.com/goback/ does just what you want[/vbc
ol]

Jamey Kirby wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Try www.shadowstor.com and look at ShadowUser. It will do exactly what you want[/v
bcol]

Thanks a lot for your answers! I'll try this software and write here
about results.

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Best regards,
DPP

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