Re: SCO 5.0.5 dd / clone

Otto enscribed:
| Hi Bill,
|
| Thanks for the feedback.
|
| I fully agree with what you write HOWEVER, in my case the server is a
| simple email server with almost all POP accounts and also a SAMBA file
| server (again most of the data is static) so a "little" bit of loss is
| acceptable. I have used this "Disaster Recovery" method successfully on
| several of my customer sites (running Linux) and it is really a 30
| second (no kidding!!) reboot to get the system going in the event of a
| disk failure. BTW I have also implemented a Microlite BackupEdge backup
| as well. If you use the Disaster Recovery of Microlite, it takes
| approximately 2-4 hours to fully recover (hence the 30 second recovery
| for a mail server) is required by my customer. I really did now want to
| get into the merits or lack thereof of the method used - just a reason
| or fix as to why the "dd" command works fine under same conditions with
| LINUX and not woth SO 5.0.5. I will probably try Bela suggestion and
| try with SCO 5.0.7 and see whether it is indeed a kernel problem or
| not. Again much thanks for your time and suggestions. Rgds. Otto.

Which begs the question (at least here), why are you going through all
of these gymnastics when there are much better and more reliable solutions.

Mirror the drive and install a hot spare. Let technology do the work
instead of kludging 1980 style partial solutions.
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Tom Parsons tom@xxxxxxxxx
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