Jac, That is terrible. I am now resolved to learn how to back up; and do it regularly! I hope you manage to get your information back somehow, or find good ways round.
Joseph Joseph Harris Smile Poetry Weekly (fortnightly) www.smilepoetryweekly.com Batty Balls and other Wicket Wit www.ah-mah-son.com ----- Original Message ----- From: jac - WDVL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 9:21 PM Subject: [wdvltalk] I'm Back!! lol > oh god what a nightmare I've just been through. > so the 80 gig hard drive (which I only bought 2 months ago) died on Monday > morning... so even though it may have seemed from my emails I didn't really > panic cause I thought "hey it's ok, I have my tape backups" - what a mess! > The tapes turned out to be backups of empty folders. When I first got the > tape drive I did a full backup but somewhere between then & last monday I > apparently canceled during a backup & then all incremental backups were just > of folders that had content that was modified. am I making sense with this? > so I finally had to reinstall XP & All my programmes - & now I have about 8 > complete site folders out of say about 40. Site files, png source files, > etc... all gone. at this stage I'm just grateful that the machine is in > working order again!! lol > > jac. > > DO YOUR BACKUPS & THE DO BACKUPS OF YOUR BACKUPS!!! ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
