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I don’t think much can be done rather than cloning the HD. I’ve seen people cloning the HD on a IDE SSD to replace the original HD on old MSDOS systems and use the SSD instead while keeping the original HD somewhere safe. Even in that case, I had to order a
new HD from the company because it was somehow custom and dumping the image onto a new one did not work. Cost me 1200$.
<div>Beside cloning, you can pile money in case this happens.<br>
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<div>MAtthieu</div>
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<div>Le 2014-11-12 à 15:58, Kurt Kupcho <<a href="mailto:kakupcho@wisc.edu">kakupcho@wisc.edu</a>> a écrit :</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[<a href="mailto:labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">mailto:labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu</a>]<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>On
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>[labnetwork] Tool PC backups / PC redundancy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Hi Labnetwork,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Over the past year our lab has seen quite a few new tool installations and as a result we now have over thirty tools (microscopes, EBL, deposition/etch systems, etc…) that have some sort of
interface with a personal computer. Many of these personal computers are run-of-the-mill consumer grade PCs and I think that running this many computers over a many-year timescale will mean that failures are virtually guaranteed. I’m very interested in knowing
how larger labs with many computers (with many different port configurations, hardware requirements, and operating systems) prepare for and deal with this problem. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">At our site, we are simply cloning the various tool hard drives (using Clonezilla) onto external hard drives that sit on a shelf in my office. This is time consuming and requires some discipline
to keep going. The other problem with this approach is that it does not really protect us in the case of non-disk hardware failures (such as a motherboard failure). I’d love to know the philosophies and approaches that larger labs employ to deal with this
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> -Nathan<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Nathan Nelson-Fitzpatrick PhD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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