[LOGic] Bob Ahrens your HDD problems

[Dan Bookwalter]

if all you want to do is backup Logic , i suppose you could always try something like XDrive as a secondary backup location....

http://www.xdrive.com/storage.jsp

Dan




----- Original Message ----
From: Mel Martin <ve2dc at videotron.ca>
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Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2008 12:14:50 PM
Subject: Re: [LOGic] Bob Ahrens your HDD problems

I've seen this plan fail for another reason... I had to help out a 
professor at a local university who had lost 2 years worth or research 
data. He was backing to a second hard drive... but was infected by a 
virus that clobbered both drives. We did manage to recover the data, but 
it wasn't easy!

I have also seen a situation where a small business had a server stolen 
with his only backup cartridge stolen with it. Even backing up to media 
continuously plugged in is risky. To be really safe you need to have 
files in 2 physical locations.

A few ideas.

Use LotW or eQSL. This will keep the minimum required QSO data backed 
up... but not everything. However it is very safe... and free. I don't 
know why everybody doesn't do it if they have an internet connection.

Mail your log database to a buddy once a week... practical with logic 
because the files are small. You can do the same for him. This is a very 
safe method.

Backup to another computer over your home network, preferably one in a 
different location. If the house burns down, the lost logs will be the 
least of your problems...

Backup to at least 2 flash drives in rotation.

Mark Klocksin wrote:
> 
> Jennifer, I can't help you at this point, but perhaps to make you feel 
> just a little bit better...
> most of us have been through something like this.  And even some of us 
> who DO (did) have a backup have lost data.
> 
> In my case, I felt totally protected because I backed up (imaged) my 
> entire "C" drive to a second internal drive on my computer.   And one 
> day...I turned the computer on and it didn't boot.  'Turned out I had 
> taken some kind of surge, because BOTH hard drives and a serial card 
> were destroyed!!  So the lesson for everyone is (as Dennis recommends) 
> is to have more than one backup.  I now back up to a second hard 
> internal drive, an external drive (that I usually leave unplugged), AND 
> a USB drive.  Hopefully, this will do the trick--if not, it will 
> probably be due to something more important going on like some kind of 
> natural disaster!
> 
> 73 es gud luck!
> 
> Mark WA9IVH
> 
> 
> On Oct 12, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Mel Martin wrote:
> 
>> Not much of what you say makes any sense to me Jennifer. i would 
>> advise... turn off the computer immediately and call someone who knows 
>> what they are doing to assess the situation. it may be possible to 
>> recover your data... but do nothing. turn off the computer.
>>
>> as for no backup... that is foolish... and should be a lesson to 
>> anyone reading on the reflector. a regular backup is essential and can 
>> be completely automated with free software. a flash drive cost very 
>> little and is probably the best method. BTW, as Bob is finding out... 
>> it's better to back up the entire Logic folder. With 2GB flash drives 
>> under $20 there is no reason not to.
>>
>> i had a drive failure recently and lost nothing... but like Bob, I had 
>> to rebuild a lot of settings and stuff... I was still fixing things 
>> weeks later ;-) That's why I recommend backing up the whole folder 
>> which I do now.
>>
>> Jennifer wrote:
>>> I saw your E-mail about your HDD, boy do I have it worst!!!  I forgot 
>>> to set the computer to see the HDD as a slave, and in a few min's the 
>>> HDD's logic "Get it, Logic" Partitives, went from NTFS and formatted  
>>> with a lot of data including  3500 mp3 files.  My HDD drive went back 
>>> new, not formated, any ideas, ANYONE.  I lost over 5000 contacts with 
>>> my Logic 8, feel really sick.  :-(   No back up,  is there a way or 
>>> software to help me to restore my data.  I know nobody cares if I get 
>>> on the air again, but the data was a part of me.  :-(
>>> Jennifer
>>> WA4CVV, not much of a Ham
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