Applying patches to an inactive partition/system ?

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arabub

Long intro. The problem is described below.

Some of the systems we have are configured with two hard drives. Let's
call them hard drive X and hard drive Y.
Both X and Y are imaged with the same image of Windows 2000.
Under normal operations, only X is online, mounted as volume C:,
bootable etc. The host and app and all are running off X.
Y is only a standby, and is not online unless a problem occurs with X.
In that case, X is taken off-line (RIB card) and Y is brought online.
The idea of this strategy is that you have two fully functional
versions of the system on two separate hard drives, both bootable etc.
(no data replication, because there is no locally stored data). When a
virus hits or some other situation arises, all we have to do is flip
between X and Y, and we are back to a known good state.

Problem:
Patching X is pretty straightforward. It's mounted as C:, and we can
apply the patches directly.
The problem is patching Y. The only way to do this we have right now
is to take X off-line, bring Y online, reboot the system, then apply
the patches, then flip back to X.

Question:
Is there a way to apply patches by mounting Y as D:, while running on
X?

Thanks!
 
arabub said:
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Problem:
Patching X is pretty straightforward. It's mounted as C:, and we can
apply the patches directly.
The problem is patching Y. The only way to do this we have right now
is to take X off-line, bring Y online, reboot the system, then apply
the patches, then flip back to X.

Question:
Is there a way to apply patches by mounting Y as D:, while running on
X?
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Hi

Sorry, but the answer is no.
 
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