Remote controlled network boot based, backup, system administration and deployment solution. HTML (AJAX) graphical interface using javascript and cgis in C/bash/Tcl. Runs on Linux, Windows, openwrt/freewrt, live cd, vmware, virtualbox or qemu.

From the GUI you can visualize the PC state, start/stop PCs for specific tasks, eg: simple boot, register the PC, partition backup / restoration, OS installation, software installation, virus scan, display pictures or vidéos, etc...

Everything you can think of as long it is realist. If you need to implement something I can do it for you.

backuPXE - Copyright (C) 2006-2019 Luc Deschenaux <[email protected]>

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I did upload a live iso file on SourceForge in 2013 but it's no longer available and I only have this "source" backup (ie: with missing bootable images, that are outdated anyway) without everything running "out of the box" (it's not the live CD).

This specific version had been tweaked to allow playing videos on light clients (eg for a wall of screens or projectors).

I am in the process of updating it so that it works using docker containers, for the boot server and the GUI part.

• Build a Docker container to run the network boot server (done)
• Build a Docker container to run the HTTP server.
• Update the boot images.
• Update partimage and partimaged.
• Update for UEFI
• Translate
• <your idea here (open an Issue) >

For today, only the boot server is usable "out of the box".

You must have Docker-CE installed and permissions to run it as a standard user.

You must also have VirtualBox installed (tested only with version 5.2.18)

In the main directory type:

make

It will:

• build and run the "backupxe" Docker container (the boot server).
• build and launch a virtual machine using VirtualBox configured to boot on it.

Coming soon. Had no time to re-install it yet.

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