David Brown wrote:
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:19:35AM -0700, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote:
Back to the original post, I believe Andrew's main concern was, "Fuck,
Customs took my computer, and now I have to spend $4k to get a new one
configured for what I need, and spend the time loading my software and
last data backup."
<gripe>
Why do people only back up their data? If you just back the entire
machine up, all you have to do is restore it. Restoring software and
configuring takes me orders of magnitude more time than restoring a
backup. For many applications these days, the data is so much larger
any way. I've not understood the point in backup software that can't do
a bare metal restore.
</gripe>
Because a full restore *never works*. Invariably, when you need a full
restore, you don't have the same hardware. When you do the full
restore, the OS craps its pants because something changed.
Of course, then you add in some node-locked licenses that you now have
to figure out how to move across and you have some real fun.
Fortunately, virtual machines are now fast enough that I can put most of
my "node locked" stuff inside a virtual machine to fake it out.
This is why I always assume that I need an install process followed by a
data restore.
-a
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