Debian-Ubuntu weakness to filesystem corruption recovery

[Jamie Jones]

On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 14:20 +0200, chantra wrote:
> Hi,
> > You don't consider desktops "production" machines ??? I'd do 1 of 3
> > things myself.
> >
> > 1) Desktops are thin clients.
> >   
> I don't really understand what you mean by that.

Literally, make the desktops into thin clients using the ltsp packages
we have. The desktops then have nothing local to backup, (and you can
remove hard disks, or use slower quieter systems). It would leave you
with a single server to backup instead, but that's still a smaller
backup then several desktops.

Has the nice advantage that desktops become "disposable" if one breaks
or is stolen, you don't need to hunt for backups or reload system
images, just plug a new computer in and turn it on, and you are back in
production.

Regards,
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