On Monday 18 April 2005 08:16 am, Ken Schneider wrote:
Since it sounds like you have -no- support contract with Oracle why not buy a one-two hour support session? If this machine is so critical to your operation you should have support anyway. Buy a tape drive and purchase some software like BackupEdge for backup/recovery (works excellent by the way for disaster recovery). Putting this off because you are afraid you won't get the right configuration on a new machine is not good and poor planning. What happens when the machine/hard drive dies without a backup? Then you are truly screwed without hope of -any- recovery possible. The last place I worked the company didn't want to purchase support till I told them no support no guaranteed recovery. I also asked them how much down time was worth, hundreds of employees not being able to work because one machine was out of commission. They finally say the light that support was cheaper than downtime.
Sound advice. While you're at it ... if the system is important to you, you should be running RAID. You can add a drive and create a mirror set to an existing system. Check out http://www.linux.com/howtos/Boot+Root+Raid+LILO-4.shtml . This is LILO specific, but the instructions for creating the mirror work just fine (NOTE: you do not need the new kernel). Once the mirror is built and you can boot to it, update grub on BOTH MBRs. From the GRUB + RAID Howto: 6. Setting up GRUB: (assuming you've already installed it) ------------------------------------------------------------------ # grub grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd grub> setup (hd0) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 16 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+16 p (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf"... succeeded Done. grub> root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd grub> setup (hd1) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd1)"... 16 sectors are embedded. succeeded Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd1) (hd1)1+16 p (hd1,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/grub.conf"... succeeded Done. grub> quit -- Louis Richards