Re: [CentOS] "multi-boot" drive partitioning

On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:39:42 -0600 Johnny Hughes johnny@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.