Mother & Me

[Susan Kline]

Hello, Elian

I hope that the efforts to recover from the floods are going well.

When I read everyone's sad backup story, I realize that I have been
very lucky not to have lost my files. If the Zip doesn't work when
one goes to retrieve, it's so much landfill, just one more kind of
"faux" backup, good only for the false confidence it gave you.

I think I'll continue my system: I put the customer file, frequently,
on floppies, and I print out ON PAPER a summary, showing names,
addresses, phone numbers, and last visit. It takes about 25 pages.
I leave at least one set of the floppies in my safe deposit box.
While the paper has nowhere near as much information as the file,
it is still handy to keep in the car, and won't disappear if it
flirts with a magnet.

Susan




>I simpathize with you, I had a similar problem ends of december, I usualy do
>that, I take the hard drive each year to be backed up to a CD. I missed last
>year, so I had two years toghether, meanwhile I keep an emergency backed up
>in Zip.drives.
>
>Guess.. I took the drive to where they burn CD´s and when they hooked it to
>their computer, the drive refused to start...
>
>I took the drive back home, and it was dead...  I bought a new drive and I
>was going to restore eight compressed zip disks, and I got a message,
>something like corrupt data in the last disk. When I put any other disk in
>it just says insert the last disk..
>
>Two years lost...
>
>I hooked back the original drive and with a disk utility I was able to
>recover about 20% of the information, but not my customers info, all that
>file is dead.
>
>Now I see that the best is having a CD burner at home.
>
>Happy New Millenium /
>----- Original Message -----
>From: robert goodale <rrg@nevada.edu>
><snip>
>
> > I have been off the list a bit longer than I expected.  When I
> > came home I turned on my computer to check my mail.  Suddenly the
> > system froze up.  Figuring it was just Netscape or one of those
> > "things" that happens sometimes I shut down and restarted the
> > computer.  At the desktop it locked up again.  Again I
> > rebooted...  except it wouldn't.  Again and again the system
> > refused to start.  Fortunately it is a new Gateway 2000 PIII and
> > fully under warranty.  I took it in to the local shop and was
> > informed the next day that the mother board was completely
> > cooked!!  The hard drive they said was okay.  Unfortunately when
> > they got it all together again the operating system was not
> > accepting the new board so they had to reformat the whole drive.
> > Yup... I lost EVERYTHING, much of which was very important.  And
> > the moral is... Buy a zip drive ASAP!!!  AAAUGGGHHH!!!!!
> > Anyway, I have a new mother now.  Let's pray she is a good one!
> >
> > Rob Goodale, RPT
> > Las Vegas, NV
> >
> >