On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:39:42 -0600 Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This was to be my point exactly ... what good does a machine that can > boot up into a file server with last months data or a web server with > last months data be if the current server just died? > > If you have a backup system in place with the ability to push certain > directories onto this machine, then maybe. Otherwise, this seems fairly > pointless. All of the live data gets backed up every night to an offsite fileserver. It will take a lot less time to copy the live data from the backup than it will to set up a new computer and then copy the live data from the backup. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos