[Dxbase] HD Crash

Sun Aug 31 08:58:40 EDT 2008

Sorry to hear about your problems Jim. Like Larry I have detailed 
what I have done to try an avoid getting caught in such an event 
again and so far it has worked.
Having retired from small office IT my solution is mirrored hard 
drives on the main and ham computers. Each computer has installed 2 
identical Maxtor drives and everything gets saved twice in real time 
so with a HD crash the mirror is still there and bootable. In 
addition I have on each computer a USB Maxtor external HD which is 
bigger than a single drive in my mirrored system and every night it 
backsup the data directories of the master mirrored drives that I 
list for it and twice a week it makes a mirror image of the master 
mirrored hard drive. I also keep a back up of the DXBase database 
files on an 8meg USB Scandisk U3 Micro Cruzer stick. The stick is how 
I move it to my laptop when I am on the road and want to work on the log.
Been there Done that like so many and with my current system while 
still a pain a HD crash recovery is to install a new drive and make a 
mirror copy of the surviving mirror and then install a new second 
drive and copy the mirrored drive to that. It has meant a days work 
as it takes several hours to transfer the data each time to the new 
drives but it is painless by comparison to the old way. I find that 
it is almost a necessity to mount new drives every 2-3 years in 
computers that are running 24/7 as mine do as a further preventative 
measure. I also clean my computers monthly changing or washing the 
filters on air intakes etc. Ain't technology grand.
I hope the recovery process goes okay for you.
73 Garth VE3HO
At 04:05 AM 8/31/2008, you wrote:
>Jim,
>>I'm sorry to hear that you had this problem.
>>May I suggest for the future:
>>1. A 2nd HD with an image (Norton Ghost) either internal or external.
>>2. A flash drive. You can buy a 4 Gb one for 20ドル
>>3. There are many places on line that offer free storage.
>>Been there.... Done that.
>>Not being anal but, I have 2 hard drives in my computer. (second is an
>image that I do once a week).
>> I back up on a flash drive and also on 2 remote servers (daily) as well
>as on my wifes laptop and my node HD!
>>Good luck!
>>73, Larry