On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Shannon Roddy wrote: > Umm... if he is working as a consultant, and has priceless data, and > is not backing it up, I don't think I would want to hire him. I sure > hope he is telling his clients to do a better job backing up their > data more effectively than trusting that dell turned on mirroring! > Besides, that is not a backup.
So true... you can have the data mirrored 10-way. But once you accidentally delete that file, it's gone... from all 10 mirrors. You still need to do regular backups! And, first thing you do when you take a new machine out of the box is reinstall the OS. Don't even bother booting the factory OS. That way you know it is setup the way you want it, not how ever dell's crazy imaging system was feeling that day. And if you have raid, test the damn raid! haha But yea i've saved a few dying Win98 boxes with that trick. Wouldn't boot, scandisk and chkdsk would just crash. So just put the old drive in my machine (debian), new drive in their machine, boot knoppix or even fedora rescue cd, and tar the whole C drive back to the new drive over netcat. Boot dos, sys C:, and voila it's fixed. ray -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ray DeJean http://www.r-a-y.org Systems Engineer Southeastern Louisiana University IBM Certified Specialist AIX Administration, AIX Support =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
