Byron, I have a 64 MB USB ramdrive that I use for portability and backups. After reading your email I tried running DX4WIN from the USB drive rather than my hard drive.
Works fine... DX4WIN doesn't know the difference. You essentially have a crash-proof storage medium on your computer. My \SAVE directory is actually quite small -- even with 15000 QSOs it is less than 5 MB -- so you could use a RAM pen drive as small as 16MB for your storage. The last IT trade show I went to, vendors were handing out 16MB drives as "trade show freebie trinkets" -- and larger USB drives are quite inexpensive. As far as back-up protection policies go, I do the usual stuff - use another PC in the house to backup my \SAVE directory. However -- even better -- a few hams here in Michigan have a practice of ZIPping their \SAVE directories and sending them to each other as email attachments on the first day of every month. So, with very little effort, we maintain off-site backups of our precious QSO data. -larry K8UT ----- Original Message ----- From: "ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 8:22 PM Subject: [Dx4win] USB RamDrive > I've toyed with the idea of just putting my dx4win database > on the USB drive. Anyone tried this? > > At 01:53 PM 12/12/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I used to use a ZIP but have since changed over to a USB Jumpdrive. I have > >a small batch file that zips the entire /save directory and copies it onto > >the jumpdrive. I have a copy of pkzip in the save directory and an icon on > >the desktop that calls this batch file: > > _______________________________________________ > Dx4win mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dx4win
