On 10/23/24 08:43, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
There's something seriously wrong with this picture. Do you mean seriously mean that if your machine suffered an irreparable fault such as a hard disk crash, you would be out of business? poc
Hi Patrick, I have several customers running Fedora (far fewer than I want). If something similar to this happens to them when I go to upgrade them, I need to know how to handle it. This is especially true after I have told them how much more technically better Linux is over Windows (or ever Mac). No, I would not be out of business. It would be severely impacted though. This workstation/server contains everything I have done over the years to simulate what I have done at my customer sites: caching dns servers (bind-chroot), DHCPd server firewalls (iptables), CUPs servers, Samba servers, virtual machines of each and every Windows applications my customers have to simulate their network issues, custom systemd starts, RDP servers, SSH servers, the list goes on. Although I have my own extensive documentation of all this, putting all that stuff back together would be a total pain in the neck. Plus I need to learn. As far as backup goes: I have six dumps of the system, one complete clone, incremental backups of my working files, a history of system configurations. I could start over, but what a pain in the neck. And again, I need to learn. I am quite familiar with restoring ever since about 25 years ago when Red Hat corrupted my drive whenever I accesses my DVD writer. Red Hat fixed it, but not before I corrupted my system twice. I remember going to work a customer sites while my system restored. Sort of like the firefighter whose house burns down whilst he is out putting someone else's house out. Only not as dramitic. Thank you for all the help. It is very, very much appreciated. I have about five more things to fix before I am back up to snuff. -T Love dnf's --allowerasing flag. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Computers are like air conditioners. They malfunction when you open windows ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
