On Wednesday 25 October 2006 11:58, Dr John Van Dyck wrote: > Why don't people use imaging more, which gives one a take-home complete > server drive in a pocket? With compression each partition will fit on > one DVD.
Imaging is rather problematic with newer versions of windows because of all this DRM crap preventing images running on changed hardware It is also a problem with wiondows because it does not allow you a clean separation of - system - system configuration - application software - system wide application configuration - per user application configuration - system data - user data In the Unix world, all of these are cleanly spearated, can be mounted on spearate partitions, and can be backedup/restored without riskingto mess anything up or to forget something. It is "mission impossible" in Windows - hence your images become HUGE, because you cannot separate images between invariants (installed system and application software) and variants (user data, configuration files) I doubt that anybody running a system with bloated newer Windows versions + bloated office software + bloated MSSQL server + bloated application software + EHR data will ever be able to fit a compressed image onto a single DVD - for most people once they start scanning a bit not even their database backups will fit onto a single DVD any more Personally, I don't need imaging any more either. I know that the newest bootable Kubuntu or Kanotix or Mepis CD will get virtually any hardware into a workable server within minutes. Then all I have to do is pull s amll script from my web site and run it on that new "server" - that script does things like "apt-get install postgresql-server-8.1", automatically installing all the software I need from the Internet that doesn't come by default with that distro - takes just a few minuytes, and then the script just patches user and system configuration form the last backup, and restores the last database backup either from a local copy or via the net from an encrypted off site copy. Possibly takles you longer just to key in all these stupid license keys when you try such with any Windows version ... Horst _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
