[Dx4win] Losing Q's on power outage

[Duane A Calvin]

 Simple answer:  Buy a UPS for your computer.  Keeps your log safe, along
with other items you might be storing just as the power goes off.  

        73, Duane


On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 19:20:21 -0700 Dick Flanagan <dick at twohams.com>
writes:
> At 06:16 PM 4/3/2007, Glen and Pam wrote:
>  >When you have a sudden shut
>  >down everything is supposed to be saved in the "backup file".
> 
> Your system has no way of knowing "a sudden shut down" is about to 
> occur, 
> so all it can do is write data to your primary log file when you 
> tell it to 
> or to a backup log file as often as you schedule it to.  To your 
> computer, 
> a sudden shut down is like you or me being blind-sided by a truck, 
> without 
> time for us to even blink, let alone make sure our will is up to 
> date.  :)
> 
>  >Has anyone come up with a bullet
>  >proof way to prevent the lose of Q's in DX4WIN?
> 
> Yup.  I run my logging computer off of an uninterruptable power 
> supply 
> (UPS) so I always have plenty of time to shut things down.
> 
> 73, Dick
> --
> Dick Flanagan K7VC NV SM
> k7vc at arrl.org
> 
> 
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