[RR] just when you thought you were safe...

[Mark Jones]

Well the other day I went through my religious backup proceedure.  At the 
end of it ... it failed.  Hum.... I went a few days to try it again. It 
failed again.... the computer started locking up when ever there was disk 
activity... ran diaognostics... bad sectors... fixed them all.  A few days 
later.. lockup again... bad sectors again.  Then double checked my backup 
status 3 weeks old on the whole system backup and had other protected data 
on other systems.  Tried to shut down all and go into survival mode to 
rescue data on failing hard drive.  In process all I got was a blinking 
cursor for 3 retries.  The next morning still no good.  Dropped by the 
office supply and picked up a new 120 gig hardrive 'on sale'... and 
unplugged the old drive and installed nortons rescue disk and walllaaa...the 
whole system all programs and settings backup and running again then 
reinstalled protected data and were set.  Total down time was very short. 
Norton System Works Premeire is a good value.

Last time I had to do a whole system reset it took me about 3 weeks to get 
it all back together again.  That was loading each program doing its setup 
and registrations..etc.

Why do I share this with you?  I have met tooooo many folk that have lost 
all their hard earned work due to a hard drive crash and no backup system in 
place.  It can take years to build up good outpost records, flyers, maps, 
contacts and it can all be gone in a flash of a cursor.  Get er done!  GRIN!

I use a removeable hardrive as my backup system. I installed the same setup 
at church with 3 hard drive rotations.

Mark Jones

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mr Jon Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mike Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mark Jones" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <rangernet@rangernet.org>
Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 6:29 AM
Subject: Re: [RR] Burnin' Heart - Update!!


The following was sent last night form my section.
Praise God!
Gary got discharged from the hospital today (Thursday)
and was asleep when i called.  Son, indicated he was
back to normal.      i'm sure he is tired etc but
don't quit praying for him and the family.
--- Mike Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyone have an update on Gary?
Iron Mike


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