[Dxbase] Protecting your DXbase investment

Sun Feb 11 18:27:46 EST 2007

I use a RAID for just this purpose. And I have a spare disk and RAID 
controller on hand, in case either the disk or the controller goes 
South. The RAID will tolerate the loss of any single HDD, and will 
scream bloody murder when it happens. It's happened at work once and 
saved my bacon. If I have anything Really Important on a machine, 
it's either running a RAID or is backed up regularly. That said, I 
still keep backups of Stuff I Cannot Stand to Lose.
Fault-tolerant RAID: a few hundred bucks.
Data: Priceless.
Kim Elmore, N5OP
At 06:33 PM 2/10/2007, Tom Lewis wrote:
>Very True,
>>I had a fairly new hardfile quit last week. The computer is only 6 months
>old.
>>I have a backup of the whole hardfile on a USB hardfile that I made with
>Ghost. So getting the computer going again was easy.
>>Tom, N4TL.
>> > [Original Message]
> > From: Jack <jack at dxbase.com>
> > To: <dxbase at mailman.qth.net>
> > Date: 2/10/2007 12:24:10 PM
> > Subject: [Dxbase] Protecting your DXbase investment
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > I want to take a moment to comment about something that seems to have
>been
> > ignored by a large number of customers.
> >
> > When you download DXbase and receive your registration as a .zip file
> > attachment, our instructions tell you to make a safe copy of these
>important
> > files onto a floppy or CD. We tell you that because if you ever
>experience
> > a computer crash or hard drive failure, this backup is all you would have
>to
> > restore your DXbase software to working condition. Unfortunately, not a
> > week goes by that we don't hear from someone who refused to take this
> > precaution and suddenly finds that their system crashes.
> >
> > For your own sake, we want to once again appeal to you that if you have
>not
> > made a copy of the registration and downloaded DXbase software file onto
>an
> > external storage medium, please do so today. If you do not believe that
> > this is worth you time, just imagine if your hard drive suddenly crashed
>and
> > you don't have the registration and software stored safely on a CD etc...
> > Ditto for your .mdb files....
> >
> > Happy computing,
> > Jack
> >
> >
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