Greg Twyford wrote: > Tony Eviston wrote: >> 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. > > And a growing list of all the patches, hardware changes and revisions > done since doing the images?
I have access to the patches if I did have to install an old imaged drive. There have been no hardware revisions and there aren't going to be. If the video card goes I'll scavenge an identical one from one of the other machines. I must admit to preferring to keep the server in a frozen state and it would only be a major new imminent threat that would make me apply patches to a working server. I know that sounds a bit Luddite but I do keep up to date with what's going on and make judgments about how much of a threat each new vulnerability poses to my particular system. Sometimes rather than applying a patch I just disable the vulnerable service (eg with the recent VML exploit). This is obviously not a permanantly sustainable policy but so far I'm happy with the run we've had. Tony _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
