Re: Long term database archival - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Long term database archival
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Msg-id 87lkqyk7hx.fsf@stark.xeocode.com
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In response to Re: Long term database archival  (Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>)
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Jan Wieck <JanWieck@yahoo.com> writes:

> I can't even find the same hardware I bought "last year". That's one of the
> reasons why I use VMware on my laptop. It has a hardware abstraction layer that
> presents default XVGA and Soundblaster cards etc. to the guest OS. When I buy a
> new laptop, I just install VMware on the new thing, copy over the virtual
> machines and fire them up. They don't even notice that they run on entirely
> different hardware.

How does that help? You still need to get VMWare's host OS working with the
new hardware.

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greg

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