In , on 08/27/04 
   at 02:13 PM, rsteiner{at}visi.com typed:

>That makes it hard to fix something when you misplace your CD, however,
>or if your CD was damaged, and it doesn't give you network access if you
>need to grab or research something as part of the repair procedure.

>I *have* used the eCS 1.1 installation CD myself to fix a broken LVM
>setup, though, so I know it also works well for some things.

I don't think it's really belt and suspenders, but I use both approaches -
a Maint part AND the CD (actually a set of CDs - eCS boot, DFSEE, and
something I've cobbled up with Bootable).  DIfferent situations ask for
different approaches.

I also use the maint partition as a part of my automatic backup mechanism
- using a cron job in the dark of the night I kick off a backup of the
maint part, then use setboot to reboot to it and pass a flag file that
causes it to backup my regular boot partition and several data parts. 
Backups are cycled with 3 major cycles and within each major cycle 4 minor
cycles; first being a full backup and the subsequent being incremental
backups (not resetting A bits).  The backup itself is done with infozip to
dedicated partitions - each regular partition is backed up to a spot on
the "other" of the 2 hard drives in the system.
 
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