I'm getting pretty tired of my development box dying and then I end up having to reinstall a laundry list of tools that I use in development.
This time I think I'm going to set the development environment up on a Virtual Box VM and save it to an external HDD so that way I can bring the development environment back up quickly after I fix the real computer.
It seems to be like a good way to make a "hardware agnostic backup" and be able to get back up to speed quickly after a disaster.
Has anybody tried this? How well did it work? Did it save you time?
I used to virtualize all my development eviroments using VirtualBox.
Basically, i have a Debian vbox image file stamped in a DVD. When i have a new project i copy it to one of my external hdds and customize it to my project.
Once my project was delivery, then i copy the image from my external hdd to a blank DVD and file it.