Re: Best Practice

From: S. Pidgorny [MVP] (slavickp@yahoo.com)
Date: 04/13/03 

From: "S. Pidgorny [MVP]" <slavickp@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 17:33:16 +1000

That's a reasonable way to prepare for back-out (assuming RAID1 or
RAID1+0)... However, you're losing disk fault-tolerance for some time -
thus, do that on server farms i.e. NLB Web farms, seek alternative solution
for database servers and alikes. 

-- 
Svyatoslav Pidgorny, MS MVP, MCSE
-= F1 is the key =-
"Kahiel" <121nospams@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:eCqxolTADHA.2376@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Well, Thanks for all replies. What about this scenario?
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> Since most of our servers are mirrored RAID-. We will break the disk
mirror,
> run MSBA, apply all fixes "critical or non-critical" as identified by
MSBA,
> wait for 3 days of activities. If no problems reported, rebuild disk
> mirrors.
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> The above can be repeated as monthly or every time a critical fix is
> released.
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> "Kahiel" <121nospams@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:OJGT5Zr$CHA.2052@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > What is the best practice applying security fixes? I believe we should
> apply
> > any fixes identified by Baseline Analyser.  Others, suggesting to do
> > thorough checking  for application conflicts with each fix, which is not
a
> > practical solution since we support many servers with many different
> > applications?
> >
> > Any advise? Any experience of application conflicts when applying
patches?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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>

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