If I lost all the files on my PC, I would have to commit suicide.
Since that is not attractive to me, I decided to do something about it.
The biggest problem, in my experience, is not file corruption but either
deleted files or hard drive crashes.
When your hard drive dies, your data is gone. I have seldom had a file
corrupted, but I have had files accidentally deleted, and I have experienced
enough hard drive crashes to never want to see one again. Those little
drives run hot and are whizzing around at 7200 RPM twenty-four hours a day
(I never turn mine off), so they are going to crash eventually. Actually,
it is a miracle that they last as long as they do. They are quite fragile.
I had my local computer shop install a second hard drive about the same
size as my primary drive, along with Norton Ghost software that BACKS UP MY
ENTIRE PRIMARY DRIVE TO THE GHOST DRIVE EVERY NIGHT (while I am asleep).
I wanted protection without spending a fortune: the extra hard drive was
about $80, the software about the same and $40 for labor. So the whole
thing was about $200.
The probability of BOTH drives crashing at the same time is almost nil
(I also have American Power UPS protection in case of surges, power
failures, etc.).If the primary crashes, you get a new primary and use the
"Ghost" software to recover your entire primary hard drive intact from the
most recent backup image. If the ghost drive crashes, just buy another one
(right away - you don't want to tempt fate by delaying replacing it).
Since the data is compressed, the system fits about four backups on the
"ghost" drive before it has to overlay the oldest backup (this varies with
the amount of your data), so I always have four complete backup images from
which to recover either individual files or directories or the entire hard
drive.
This helps me sleep a lot better at night.
An even better solution, if you want to spend the extra money, is to get
a high-capacity drive (probably an external drive) with removable media
along with a software package like "Ghost".. That way you can save one set
of disk images every so often (week? month?) just by swapping the disk
cartridge for a fresh one. You could even send one off site periodically in
case of fire or flood (or tornado?) physically destroying your computer.
Del
----- Original Message -----
From: "CWFugitt" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 6:36 AM
Subject: CS>:List server ( Unfairly Blamed )
Morning Cindy,
>> At 10:10 PM 3/4/2007, you wrote:
When you say, "List Server" you have said a mouthful. Most people have
not a clue what the word means.
Give Mike the credit he disserves.
Two or three of us pointed out the source of the problem.
Man built the computer. He made some mistakes.
The Super large files have problems on any computer.
The way the operating system reads and writes files is subject to error.
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