Suggestion was made to start a new thread. Would like ideas. Some people, possibly correctly so, think using a personal computer (for an organ that "has to work") is at best risky. Without going too pricey, too complex, what is a best approach? Esp since "Murphy" still is active in these parts.
I posted this on another thread:
As an example of (nothing can go wrong, go wrong, etc, yesterday I got a panic call from a good client who had their HW organ, of over 2 years working perfectly, stop working. In this "mission critical" situation, we built for them a totally identical back up computer. Even with color coded connectors. It was/is plug and play ready I talked a medium tech person on how to setup/install the back up including changing the dongle to the back up computer. Thankfully, everything is working, the organist had only to change a few c/a settings. So for their First Sunday of Advent service and concert, they will be running with the back up. Both computers have identical (programmed) SSD's but I felt safer with this tech person to do the swap.
They had been having rehearsals most of the week with no organ issues so they weren't waiting to check things out at the last minute.Obviously, having that degree of back up isn't always possible.
Thought I would pass this on maybe to give an idea to those responsible for an important installation. It might be a future consideration to do a hot standby, but I wasn't looking to over complicate either. Still thinking about that. Any thoughts?
Being able to back a claim of reliability would certainly help the Hauptwerk "cause".
Rgds,
Ed
I posted this on another thread:
As an example of (nothing can go wrong, go wrong, etc, yesterday I got a panic call from a good client who had their HW organ, of over 2 years working perfectly, stop working. In this "mission critical" situation, we built for them a totally identical back up computer. Even with color coded connectors. It was/is plug and play ready I talked a medium tech person on how to setup/install the back up including changing the dongle to the back up computer. Thankfully, everything is working, the organist had only to change a few c/a settings. So for their First Sunday of Advent service and concert, they will be running with the back up. Both computers have identical (programmed) SSD's but I felt safer with this tech person to do the swap.
They had been having rehearsals most of the week with no organ issues so they weren't waiting to check things out at the last minute.Obviously, having that degree of back up isn't always possible.
Thought I would pass this on maybe to give an idea to those responsible for an important installation. It might be a future consideration to do a hot standby, but I wasn't looking to over complicate either. Still thinking about that. Any thoughts?
Being able to back a claim of reliability would certainly help the Hauptwerk "cause".
Rgds,
Ed