Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 08:42:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:On 12/17/08 19:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:As far as I know, Debian doesn't have an installer feature like OpenBSD's where you can boot the installer, set up the disk partitions, and run restore right from there (from tape, presumably a raw drive partition as well, I don't know).That's one "large-systems" feature which Linux really misses.
Real large-systems aren't taken off-line or ever restored from that low a level, usually.
If they are, it's because there was 8 feet of water in the server room, and even then, you probably failed over to your cold-site before it got that bad.
If you just had a hardware failure, you're probably already running on the warm/hot spare system by the time you look into it.
So... you might be thinking "mid-sized" PC-based systems. ;-)
I wonder if linux's dump is compatible with OpenBSD's restore? That would make bare-metal restores very handy. Ron, Much of the linux culture (the way to do things) seems to be aimed at(developed by?) windows users.
Hahaha... that was the funniest thing I read all day.
Short of getting a job in a "large-systems" shop (not going to happen), do you have any references, hints, etc, on becoming more familiar with large-systems practices/procedures/culture?
Why bother? Go outside, enjoy some sunshine, have a life. If it's cold where you are, I hear snowmobiles are fun.
There's nothing useful other than self-edification about learning how to manage "large systems" unless someone pays you to do it.
(Plus if you want to know what it's REALLY like to manage large or complex systems, just cancel all capital expenditures this quarter! There's a worldwide economic panic going on amongst the same people who screwed it up in the first place, don't you know? No LTO tape drive or any of those other toys you mentioned allowed... OKAY... NOW GRIN and come up with a backup plan... and welcome to REAL large system's admin!)
:-) Nate