I can relate, I have lost several hard drives, my shop is full of very fine
metal dust from the fine sandblasting we do around here. I keep one drive
with an image of a good clean set up I keep that at home so if any thing
happens here I have that to fall back on. I then keep all my data baked up
on cd's once a month and my "important stuff" on a thumb drive once a week.
so I'm usually no more than a week of "important" data lost and usually next
day full recovery. That is unless I loose my image drive while doing an
install. That happened once and is wasn't fun.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John T. Blair" <jblair1948@cox.net>
To: <Bricklin@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2006 1:59 PM
Subject: Computer crash - long!
> At 01:55 AM 3/18/2006 -0500, Paul J. Amoroso wrote:
>
> >Regarding the backups - an external hard drive via USB port is a good
> >consideration because it can be stored in a fireproof safe, away from
fire,
> >storms, floods, etc. And it can also be automated, as long as the drive
> >is turned on and ready to go when the software tells the machine to
> >back-up. If there are relatively small files that need backed up, a
> >data-key (AKA memory card-drive, AKA USB drive, AKA thumb-drive, etc.)
can
> >be used, coming in at very affordable prices these days.
>
> Paul,
>
> You make a very good point! Especially with the size of HDs these days.
> It turns out that my HD is down hard. From what I can tell, it has to
> do with the software structure in the drive. I've replaced the drive
> and restored my software. Total down time less than 3 days - of those
> days, I had to work 2 and sleep all 3. :) Loss of data - minimual -
> less than 7 days mostly email.
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