Re: buying a server

["L. V. Lammert" <lvl@omnitec.net>]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Chet Langin wrote:

> One question is about the tape drive at over $900.
> Is tape worth that?  (I just backup to CD's anymore.)
>
If you need to take the backups offsite, .. it can be useful; for dynamic
machine backups, rsync is a lot more flexible and completely automatic. We
do syncs normally ever 15 minutes to an archive machine.

> Should I bother with the Microsoft OS on it or save
> that $200?  (I will, of course, be running Linux,
> probably SuSE.)  Does it make sense to dual boot
> servers?

No way - not worth the trouble. You should never be rebooting a server
anyway.

	Lee

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  Leland V. Lammert            lvl@omnitec.net
    Chief Scientist     Omnitec Corporation
 Network/Internet Consultants   www.omnitec.net
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