Windows vs. i5 in HA (was: RE: i5 Youngsters)

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At Tim's request, a change in subject. :)

> WS2008's wbackup can do bare metal restores.

Nice! Haven't played w/it yet. What's the deal? Bootable CD that knows
how to kick off the restore? What if the backup is on a remote server? 

> I've seen customers that ran (very old) versions of our software that
> didn't use commitment control yet, and saved it using SWA. Backing
> worked perfectly. It got interesting after they ran a restore.

Point-in-time recovery is always interesting w/out commitment control.
However, it's often (usually) better than no recovery at all. Given the
choice of a restore where I may have an order w/out all its details, or
no restore at all I'll always that the one w/a messed up order! :)

-Walden