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• Fog

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  An open source computer cloning & management system

  

I know we're in r/Batch, but I'd personally recommend looking at PowerShell for this kind of automation...or, if you shop can afford it, professional imaging software -- like MDT, FOG, SmartDeploy, etc.

• AutoHotkey

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  AutoHotkey - macro-creation and automation-oriented scripting utility for Windows.

  

It could also be looking into AutoHotKey for some things -- my "inventory collection" utility is a compiled (portable) AHK script; which pulls data from wmic, WinAudit & Belarc Advisor...which definitely saves me time; but isn't great...the correct solution here would be to use an actual inventory system that will probe clients for the information we want...but that costs more than $0, so isn't an option for me.

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• BorgBackup

  333 10,559 9.4 Python

  Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.

  

While you can roll your own solutions, I'd generally advise against it. Depending on what you're doing, FOG, BorgBackup, Veeam and other solutions are probably a better solutions than custom tooling.

• Ansible

  391 61,210 9.8 Python

  Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.

  

Likewise, while rsync is an incredible tool, we're currently just using crontab on each machine individually (and an excel spreadsheet for tracking) scheduling everything...it would be nice if there was a central location to manege everything; but I'm not sure what we would do in this case to fit our budget (ansible or something, maybe?).

• archweb

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  Arch Linux website code

  

While its been a while since we've done so, I'd also recommend looking into CloneZilla. While its a tool for pulling disk images, I've found it quite easy to use and relatively space efficient...plus, its part of the ArchLinux ISO image, which I prefer over CloneZilla's ISO.

• SaaSHub

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