Where did I put that driver disc?
By Jason Slater in Reader
Posted in Technology on March 31, 2008 at 10:25 am
I recently talked about problems with Backing Up (and Restoring) XP Drivers and have been trying to find a reliable method for hardware driver management. With so many different configurations in the field and including those in the server room - managing a rebuild is a much more complex task than it really should be. Unless you are lucky enough to purchase all your machines and software at the same time and perform regular technology updates and refreshes then chances are you, like us, have lots of different driver requirements. Much of the time this isn’t a problem. After all, while the machine is running adequately we don’t need to worry about it right? Only when a server fails do we often realise that we don’t have driver ‘X’ at hand and the machine won’t operate properly without it.
Virtual Server technology is started to provide some relief to this problem by layering the virtual drivers away from the physical drivers but where does the responsibility for driver management lie? It would be great to click a button and backup all the existing drivers and be able to utilise them during a rebuild but for this to work it needs the hardware vendors and the operating systems people to work together to implement an industry wide solution.
In the mean time I will continue my search but I wonder - how do you manage your drivers?
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