Urgent help needed: Licensing snafu following server crash

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Only Bill Campbell would say something like:
> We build all systems with a partition identical in size to the
> root partition, mounted on ``/backroot'' (but not automounted),
> onto which we make a complete copy of the root file system with
> only the /etc/fstab file modified so that the partitions for the
> root and /backroot are reversed (/etc/default/filesys on OpenServer).
> The boot menu allows one to boot into this partition as needed.

I like this idea, Bill.  Thanks for sharing that!

> Before doing any on-line update, we rsync the ``/'' partition to
> `/backroot'', and test the boot just to be on the safe side.
> This gives us a fall-back position if the update hoses the
> system, and also may be useful if a machine is cracked.

That's sweet.  You'd just need a differential list of files
added/removed/modified and you can track exactly what was done in a crack,
if you track the normal activity finely enough, of course.  I love it when
one can basically make the machine tell you what was done to it.  I always
like to see more ways of doing that. 

Elegant!  And sound advice.  Again, sweet!

This one's getting saved.  Very worth it.

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