[Dx4win] USB RamDrive

Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:07:33 -0500

Byron,

I have a 64 MB USB ramdrive that I use for portability and backups. After
reading your email I tried running DX4WIN from the USB drive rather than my
hard drive.

Works fine... DX4WIN doesn't know the difference. You essentially have a
crash-proof storage medium on your computer. My \SAVE directory is actually
quite small -- even with 15000 QSOs it is less than 5 MB -- so you could use
a RAM pen drive as small as 16MB for your storage. The last IT trade show I
went to, vendors were handing out 16MB drives as "trade show freebie
trinkets" -- and larger USB drives are quite inexpensive.

 As far as back-up protection policies go, I do the usual stuff - use
another PC in the house to backup my \SAVE directory. However  -- even
better -- a few hams here in Michigan have a practice of ZIPping their \SAVE
directories and sending them to each other as email attachments on the first
day of every month. So, with very little effort, we maintain off-site
backups of our precious QSO data.

-larry
K8UT
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ARS NZ3O (Byron) FM29fx" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 8:22 PM
Subject: [Dx4win] USB RamDrive

> I've toyed with the idea of just putting my dx4win database
> on the USB drive.  Anyone tried this?
>
> At 01:53 PM 12/12/2003, [email protected] wrote:
> >I used to use a ZIP but have since changed over to a USB Jumpdrive.  I
have
> >a small batch file that zips the entire /save directory and copies it
onto
> >the jumpdrive.  I have a copy of pkzip in the save directory and an icon
on
> >the desktop that calls this batch file:
>
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