Re: [sheflug] windows virtual server

[John M Cooper <john [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 11:58 +0100, David Willington wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I'm setting up moodle for a school. The test site is running on a LAMP
> server quite happily, but it's been suggested by the technicians that
> the production server could run on a LAMP server within windows virtual
> server, the advantage being that they can take snapshots of the LAMP
> server for backup purposes without having to get involved with the LAMP
> server itself. There seem to be a couple of drawbacks

One other small point is that if they are worried about snapshots and
easy restores then you may want to look into setting up mondo[1] so that
they have a simple procedure for rebuilding the server using the restore
disk and then the database from a remote backup ( perhaps a simple mysql
dump to a smb share?) 


john

[1] http://www.mondorescue.org/





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