[dba-Tech] Really and for true, how can I...

Lembit,

» yes, right. sorry. «

That made me chuckle.  I could hear John Cleese saying that in a Monty
Python episode.

» somehow I was under the impression thst the old machine had failed.... «

No, it had just "seen better days".  It had its power supply replaced,
but it still works all right.  I was primarily interested in how to
reduce the pain of re-installing umpteen pieces of software on a brand
new computer to get it up to the level of functionality that an
existing system has.

In my experience, it takes a couple weeks for things to be back to
"normal" when one buys a new machine to replace an old one.  Sure,
favorites and address books and email and data files can be
transferred, no sweat.  The sweat comes when one re-installs all that
blankety-blank software!  The "bucket brigade" with an alternate IDE
controller seems to me to offer as direct a route as possible,
considering that there's a different hard disk controller in the new
machine.

Steve Erbach
Neenah, WI
USA

On Sun, Jun 1, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Lembit Soobik
<lembit.dbamail at t-online.de> wrote:
> yes, right. sorry.
> Since I'm used to always do backup images to other machines on the network,
> in my environment it would be the logical thing to do to use the latest
> image for the new machine. also, somehow I was under the impression thst the
> old machine had failed....
> Lembit
>
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> From: "Steve Erbach" <erbachs at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Really and for true, how can I...
>
>
>> Lembit,
>>
>> Now, now...the reason I started this thread was to ask how to take a
>> GOOD drive from one system and get it working in another.  Backup is a
>> different beast.
>>
>> Steve Erbach