Re: reasonable billable time for XP recovery?
Dean Hamstead <[email protected]>
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its worth noting that ipcop has a handy feature to permanently cache windows updates so that although connected hosts think they are getting updates from MS, they are infact being transparently proxied great for computer stores etc. and possibly less fuss than wsus Dean Daniel Pittman wrote: > "Voytek Eymont" <[email protected]> writes: > >> I occasionally get to reinstall failed XP machines >> >> what's a 'reasonable billable time' to: > >>From experience, this process takes between four and eight hours of > effort, unless there is a local WSUS cache of all the updates.[1] > > What is reasonable, in my opinion, in terms of billable time is every > second it takes you to work through the issues, plus any travel costs. > > What is reasonable to your customers, of course, will vary wildly. :) > > Regards, > Daniel > > Footnotes: > [1] That usually saves ~ 30 minutes of download time for patching. > -- http://fragfest.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html