On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 13:35 -0700, Scott Marlowe wrote:
>
>> > In a nutshell, I am heartly recommending virtualization.
>>
>> In a nutshell, you are relying on luck that both heavy iron machines
>> can't lose power at the same time. Sure, it's a low possibility, but
>> it's still a real one.
>>
>
> Not luck. Percentage of risk.
They're both ways of saying you're rolling the dice. And in every
situation we're rolling the dice, it's just a question of how many and
how unlikely a particular outcome it. It's why we all have off-site
backups, and so on.