On Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:20:35 -0000, Laurie Slater wrote:

>A quick note of commiseration on the loss of your HDD (I know a
>good counsellor if you need one)! I did the same last year and
>lost 6 months of data. A most regrettable event and I am ashamed
>to say (in my case) completely avoidable!

The tragedy was that the backup disk was also destroyed in the process!
 That was due to a stupid mistake that took one click to format the
wrong drive!

Fortuantely, I had the lot on the notebook, albeit slightly older
version.

The pain of reinstalling all the applications, settings and copying the
data from the notebook.

I am pleased to say that I am back, alive and kicking and that the
covers are back on the computer case.

>Has anyone worked out a good system with the archiving features
>for Outlook 98? The halcyon days of being able to use just the
>one disk have long since gone as my backup.pst file is now an
>unmanageable 30mb!

My backup file was around 1.2Gb.  I wouldn't bother with Outlook.  Here
is what I do:

Main disk is 8+ Gb, partitoned into 3 primary partitions (4,2,2).

Slave drive of 2.1Gb

Full backup of the main partition goes to one of the other partitions. 
The remaining partition is a playground.

Once a week or so, entire disk is mirrored to the slave drive using
PowerQuest's 'DriveCopy'.  A truly amazing product.

Slave drive costs less than a ton and DriveCopy is, oh, a fifth of
that?

All this, of course, is not stupidity proof like in my case, but should
work.

Ahmad

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Dr Ahmad Risk
Editor Health Informatics Europe
http://hi-europe.co.uk
Tel:  +44 1273 321805
Fax: +44 1273 774614




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