Horst Herb wrote: > 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. > Yes. We're on Windows.
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