[dba-Tech] Security measures

Raid IDE is more for fail safe rather than stability...  by that I 
mean.. you install a patch lets say SP4 on win2k, and your machine 
begins to act quirky, well your mirrored drives are gonna have that 
install of sp4... as opposed to having mirrored or ghosted the drive 
prior to the sp4 install.
-- 
-Francisco

Tortise at Paradise wrote:

> For what its worth a strategy I have employed is to use RAID IDE (mirroring) drives, use 3 drives, make two of them cold swappable,
> and at intervals swap the drives and copy the image to the "new" drive"
> Should all hell break loose you reinstall the old drive, and update and run off that one, and resume copying from there.
> It is very cost effective, although not tested in the sense of being really needed.  Still I like these things happening on my
> terms.  LOL
> Kind regards,
> David
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Steven W. Erbach" <serbach at new.rr.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Security measures
> 
> 
> Francisco,
> 
> 
>>>It's quite a bit
> 
> easier this way cuz you can just take your corrupted OS dump the image
> on it placing you back before the patch was installed. <<
> 
> And that's where I thought a cloned drive would be simpler yet. Granted, you
> don't have multiple image backups. But for ease of get-up-and-go, a cloned
> drive wins hands down, I'd say.
> 
> Thanks for the extra details about OE. Very persuasive arguments.
> 
> Regards,
>