[Gllug] Back-out plans on Debian/Redhat?

James Hawtin oolon at ankh.org
Sat Mar 7 16:50:18 UTC 2009


On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 04:35:17PM +0000, Juergen Schinker wrote:
> You should definitely think about Virtualisation..
> 
> as I prefer Xen i recommend it despite the recent turbulences
> 
> once virtualised you can start a cloned copy e.g. on the same machine
> 
> once successfull you can do the same with the live one
> 
> Xen is also very fast and imho VMware sucks

The one thing not to forget when you bring up the second copy is, be careful
if you have a static ip address, this is a particular problem if you bring
uip the clone on the same server as the orginal rather than in a dev DMZ.

James
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