[CentOS] "multi-boot" drive partitioning

[Frank Cox]

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:39:42 -0600
Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> 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.

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