[Dxbase] Protecting your DXbase investment

[Tom Lewis]

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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