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re: Server 2008 update goes bad...
Posted on 8/7/14 at 10:12 am to jcole4lsu
Posted on 8/7/14 at 10:12 am to jcole4lsu
Two thoughts:
1- I have a Win 2003 server that get's every update that's ever come out and have never had a problem
2- It's not a mission critical server, and if it was, I would not touch that shite without having another just like it as a staging server that would get all updates first before doing anything to the production server
One of my customers had a Win 2000 server until about 3 weeks ago.. it managed a critical SAN. Nobody got within 10 feet of that thing and everyone puckered up when we needed to do anything on it. (we did not trust the customers backup either)
1- I have a Win 2003 server that get's every update that's ever come out and have never had a problem
2- It's not a mission critical server, and if it was, I would not touch that shite without having another just like it as a staging server that would get all updates first before doing anything to the production server
One of my customers had a Win 2000 server until about 3 weeks ago.. it managed a critical SAN. Nobody got within 10 feet of that thing and everyone puckered up when we needed to do anything on it. (we did not trust the customers backup either)
Posted on 8/7/14 at 10:20 am to Meauxjeaux
quote:this is one thing that companies fail hard at. And, it is because they are cheap and don't want to pay to duplicate their systems.
It's not a mission critical server, and if it was, I would not touch that shite without having another just like it as a staging server that would get all updates first before doing anything to the production server
Frick, we have over 550 Virtual Servers. We have the ability to snapshot servers prior to doing updates and then failing back if they cause issues. That has been done with maybe 50 machines ever, and probably just maybe 25 of them on a regular basis.
Of course, we also have backups of our stuff and can rebuild them if need be.
The organization really needs to look at their backup solution and figure out why this critical system wasn't backed up. And if it was, why they aren't able to recover it. If it is that critical. They should have regular backups onsite and offsite. And, they should be testing backup recovery on a regular basis.
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