Swapping Motherboards?

[Harold Hallikainen]

In anticipation of my server eventually dying, I'm trying to come up with
a way to have almost zero down time. The machine has two removable drives.
One holds /home . The other holds everything else. I'm thinking of using
Norton Ghost to duplicate these drives. Then, should I lose a drive, I
just plug in my backup.

The next trick is, if I lose the motherboard or power supply, I move the
drives from the dead machine to a live machine. The motherboard in the
existing server is no longer in production and getting expensive (Tyan
Tiger 200). How much trouble am I likely to have if the motherboard is not
an exact duplicate of the one I'm running now when I move drives?

THANKS!

Harold


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