In <4384793391606637.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on
01/09/2014
at 11:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>Is this "cloning", sometimes called "deployment" to a live system?
>It seems there's a flaw in the process if the live system is not
>updated by a process identical to that used on the maintenance
>system.
Why should the current live system be updated at all? Treat it as a
fallback system and IPL from the more current system.
>None of which would have protected me:
What protects you is developing a robust plan for service, testing and
deployment, then sticking to it. If you do things in an ad hoc manner
then you will eventually shoot yourself in the foot.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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