Yep, ghost is ESSENTIAL! ;) I've got an old p2 400, restore takes about 6.5 minutes.
-Stace -----Original Message----- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 7:09 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Where DO you put beta software? Mike Kear wrote: > "Never put Beta software on production machines" > > "Never put beta software on critical machines" > > "Never put beta software on machines doing live projects". > > Well that covers all the machines in my business. Where do the rest of > you put beta software? Surely you don't all have spare machines doing > nothing most of the time. Or do you? I don't. But at a place where I work as a volunteer sysadmin I claimed a staging server. I use that for almost all the beta stuff I get, and I run little projects there in between. But the real key to this setup is Ghost. I have a Ghost bootflop that mounts a Windows share on another server, and I have litterally dozens of Ghost images of all sorts of configurations. Various Windows versions, in different stages of installation and with different software installed. On a complete webserver install with Windows, IIS and CF MX I can roll back to at least 5 Ghost images from various points during the installation and configuration. If you work this way, you can even use a computer that serves as a administrative system from 9 to 5 as a testbed from 5 to 9, since a typical restore only takes 5 minutes. Jochem ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
