[labnetwork] Software End of Life Ramifications

[Michael Rooks]

Tom's advice is very good. Around here we clone each Windows drive onto 
a spare disk, using Achronis, and once a year we make new clones and 
swap them to make sure they work. Also, we have to keep all the older XP 
controllers on a protected internal network. Some instrument vendors 
will do this as part of their routine service, but you really can't 
trust anyone but yourself.

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Michael Rooks
Yale Institute of Nanoscience and Quantum Engineering
nano.yale.edu <http://nano.yale.edu>



On 08/19/2015 10:51 PM, Thomas Lohman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Your best bet would be to make complete OS disk images of the 
> computer's disk if possible.  There are freely available products that 
> will allow you to do this.  Storing multiple copies of these images on 
> a file server or offline storage somewhere would then allow you to 
> restore the entire image if for example the existing disk dies.  We've 
> done this here for a number of our older tools as well as research 
> group owned tools.
>
>
> --tom
>
>> With the death of windows XP most equipment vendors have been forced to
>> stop supporting their own software that runs tools on that platform.
>> Since some of us cannot afford to upgrade our entire enterprise with
>> typically new PC’s with vendor specific interface hardware and software
>> is there a method to share obsolete applications without the fear of
>> repercussions from the vendors? I understand the need for licensing new
>> supported software, but once a company washes it’s hands of a product
>> and offers no support other than to sell you a newer version can owners
>> that paid once already share copies to keep running for a while?
>>
>> For example, if we had a failed Window XP PC on a Dektak 8 and needed to
>> reload the software and drivers to run our perfectly good Dektak could
>> someone share a copy of that software?
>>
>> Just curious.
>>
>> Mark Heiden
>>
>> NanoFab Cleanroom Manager
>>
>> Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering
>>
>> University of California, Riverside
>>
>> 951-827-2551
>>
>>
>>
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