> >Did you ever do a backup of your programs and packages from your
> Short answer, no. I have a zip drive but I don't know of any convenient
> way of backing up to zip disks initially or incrementally later on. Does
> anyone know how to?
I don't do what you might call "professional" backups :) but I do use
Zip disks. I have tried various programs to back up data incrementally
or in some other organised way and have despaired of all of them. :-/
What I do now is try to organise my harddrive a bit so the data which
is likely to change is more readily accessible. Things which are
"valuable" I simply regularly copy over to a single Zip disk. Other
changed data I could live with being some weeks out of date (email,
etc) I just copy in great chunks (whole directory trees) to a
compressing filesystem like XFH mounted on other Zips. A complete
system copy was made initially, of course.
Since my Zip drive is not bootable, being attached to a Squirrel, and
the above method requires a minimal system to recover from, I created
an emergency boot floppy too. Primarily this was to ensure the
mountfiles for the ZIP were available.
Please note that the above method is purely my way of doing it which I
have found to have the best hassle to results ratio. There are many
other ways. If you have a large drive, lots of important data you
want backed up on a regular basis, or rapid recovery, this casual
aproach is probably not a good idea. Personally, I don't want to
allocate a few hours per week to regular backup runs.
BTW, if you have PFS it is also handy to use it with Zips, the
transfer rate goes up enormously over FFS. Much more noticable than a
harddrive.
> ago. Incidentally its unbelievable how flaky the whole system has become
> now - programs that worked fine are now crashing (mostly 8000000B
> errors).
FPU emulator error. This one is typical of stack overflows. You could
check which patches you are running, and whether there are newer
versions. Also MUI mcc's. Running something like MuGuardianAngel for a
little while may help to pinpoint the problems.
Cheers,
Ian
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