On 12 May 99 20:45:05 -0100, Wayne SS paused for a moment's thought and chose to write
this about
Re: [netconnect] Microdot ate my e-mails shocker!:
Firstly, by the time you read this it will be 7/8 days out of date but
MD2 has completely jumbled my threads and I didn't realise anyone had
replied to me.
> BTW, Oi Paul:
> > Get PFS2 now.
>
> PFS2? Petrol filling station 2? Am I missing something?
You got it. Just fill the disk drive with petrol (unleaded works best)
and the hydrocarbons will react with the surface to restore all old
files since the last 24 hours.
Alternatively - Professional File System 2. If you still don't know
what I mean then just think "FFS but better" because the last 30 files
to be deleted actually stay in a hidden dir and you would have had no
probs getting back the old prefs file.
> > Are you saying you haven't made a backup for over five months?
>
> Sigh. Ain't hindsight a wonderful thing.
The only time I ever made a backup was when my HD went boom a few
months ago and I had to salvage all that I could - which isn't much on
a collection of about 60 floppies from a 1gig HD :-(
So at the moment it's physically impossible for me to back up, which
probably means the same for many others. Money being the one
to break this rule.
>
> everyone knows that precaution is something you do after something
> goes wrong.
Prevention is better than cure - unless it gets you a few days off
work.
> I actually use (apparently very occationally ;-) the Video Backup
> System.
Aaahhh! Don't mention that again! I tried to get it for the
aforementioned calamity but Power had sold out and Eyetech said "It's
unreliable so we don't stock it" :-( Still, great service from them
(the woman didn't know, so she went to find out then phoned me next
day). Except they tried to sell me a CD-R to backup my HD. A /bit/ too
expensive for that, methinks.
>
[cue Neil B. to say "Not if it stops you losing all your work"] ;)
PC.
--
Afternoon, noun:
That part of the day we spend worrying about how we wasted the morning.
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