On Wednesday 25 October 2006 11:32, Tony Eviston wrote: > my sympathy. > I think I made a suicide pact with myself if I ever had to rebuild again > so I now have no less than 4 hardware identical machines in the surgery > and at home, and 2 imaged hard drives of the newly rebuilt server (one > immediately after installing the TS licences and another after > installing MD and Pracsoft.
Can't help smirking. I am running a workshop at the upcoming ACRRM conference. I think I'll demonstrate live during the talk how I install a working Debian based surgery server incl. Windows emulation from scratch & restoring legacy software image from scratch onto an unformatted harddisk on different hardware than the backup (going from Pentium4 to AMD 64, from SIS graphic to nVidia, Realtek 100MBit ethernet to Intel GB Ethernet etc) in less than 20 (twenty) minutes to a state where I can just pick a laptop from the audience and get it to connect to that server in less than 3 minutes and run my practice software (incl legacy Pracsoft on Windows emulation) from there - all that while continuing to talk and only occasionally hitting the keyboard for a few commands. Then we'll take 5 minutes to set up an automatized back routine that backs up everything to a SLUG (Linksys NSLU) based micro-system at full network speed, and another 5 minutes to set up hot incremental backups of anSQL database, and another 5 minutes to set up automatized daily backups onto DVD Come and watch me. I guarantee that the lot is working after less than 45 minutes, starting from scratch, and ending up with a fully functional server incl fully automatized backups (current timing without talking and being distracted is 28 minutes, did it already about a dozen times over the last couple of weeks to ensure that nothing embarrassing will happen) People not doing it my way must be masochists. Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
