Well, we're running an NEC PBX and upgraded it to a hybrid a couple years ago when we got a lightning strike that took out half the cards in the system (including the most expensive cards, of course! <Grin>) But that's a good idea... might have to come in and use G4L to ghost to an external disk drive as an image. Thanks!
-----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 9:02 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Win98SE errors On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 8:37 AM, John Aldrich <[email protected]> wrote: > Our voicemail box runs OS/2 Warp. J Not sure what I'll do if it ever crashes. I would suggest scheduling some downtime, removing the hard disk drive, attaching the HDD to another computer, and making a disk image. That way, when the HDD fails, you can find a replacement HDD and restore it and get the system working again. You might need to find an old, smaller HDD (bigger ones often give old hardware/software fatal brain cramps), but that part is usually easy. Unless you *want* the system to be unrecoverable so you *have* to get a new VMU (voice mail unit), of course. :) Be warned, though: Sometimes there are dependencies between the VMU and the PBX/KSU (PBX=private branch exchange, KSU=key service unit; one of these is the central equipment in a phone system). We used to have a Norstar KSU. We were looking at upgrading the firmware of the KSU to support more ports. We learned that newer firmware was incompatible with our old VMU. Upgrading the KSU meant replacing the VMU. We ended up replacing all the central equipment with a Nortel BCM instead; it wasn't that much more money, but gave us a lot more features. (Three months latter, Nortel declared bankruptcy, but that's another story.) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
