hd problem

[Keith Antoine]

On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 09:21 pm, David A. Bandel wrote:


> Do you have a backup of your data?

Only partial; no where near enough. But that was their problem, they had GHOST 
installed, but I made the mistake of thinking that they would do a regular 
backup.

> If no, boot using Knoppix and pull all the data you need off.  Once
> you've verified you have all the data and it's in good shape, you can do
> pretty much whatever you need to to get things going again.

Unfortunately the lesson has been driven home hard, insofar as they data was 
totally corrupted.

> Then as sson as possible, convince this customer M$ _will_ eventually
> cost them their data and if it means anything to them they should
> consider migrating to Linux.

Yes I have made that submission, and they are willing to give linux a try but 
want dual boot <grin>.

> But _all_ systems with important data need backups.

Yes thats now obvious. However what I have done is to install asecond 120G Hd 
and now would like to setup an auto backup system. Now I am not really 
familiar with windoze, so are ther any recommendations, and how do I 
automate, say weekly across 4 partitions. I need something like a cron job 
until I can ease them over to linux. 

What we do have in Australia is electronic tax, that has to be sent quarterly, 
its like a VAT system. It is for windows only and installs ONLY on C drive, 
typical Govt program, so I cannot get rid of windows unfortunately as yet.

> Ciao,
>
> David A. Bandel

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Keith Antoine (GANDALF) aka 'SKIPPY'
18 Arkana St, The Gap, Queensland 4061, Australia:: PH:61733002161
Practising Geriatric, Retired Electronics Engineer, Knowall, Brain in storage