Bill, I completely understand what you are saying, and you're not being argumentative. It is a valid concern when using one PC for work and play. But here are a couple of solutions to the concern.
The price of Terabyte Hard Drives today has come down drastically such that one could easily justify adding one to a system just as a backup medium for that system, or even purchasing an external model to be used on several machines. There is software out there, such as Acronis, that can make a complete image backup of your system that includes your boot sector as well, just be sure to point it's drop to your spare terabyte drive. And restoring a PC is as easy as booting from the Acronis CD and pointing it to the Terabyte Backup drive. That is what I did for several years, and it did save me a few times. The only issue I had with the whole process is that is a manual process that has to be performed on a regular basis if you want to minimize the inherent loss of data. Now I use a Home Server that goes out, wakes up each PC one at a time and backs them up, then puts them back to sleep. This is done nightly while I am asleep and it is incremental, so if the PC crashes the loss of data is extremely minimal. That is not its only purpose in its life, but it is the most notable. So Bill, I would agree with you if you're not running some kind of back up routine and your constantly changing the state of the toys on your play machine. Better to have the play machine crash than having a play/work machine crash. But then again, manually backing up one machine over two is just a little less time spent on maintenance, and a whole lot less time on manually rebuilding. 73, Mike W5CUL --- On Wed, 12/7/11, Bill <[email protected]> wrote: From: Bill <[email protected]> Subject: [FlexEdge] Fast PC's To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 1:19 PM I'm not wishing to be argumentative. but in my doddering old age.....(ask my 7 children, & 18 grandchildren) but I did learn these things never date your best friends sister never go into business with friends don't put all your eggs in one business and if you use your computer for fun and for personal business a disaster will be twice as expensive -- Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders. --------------------------- Bill H. in Chicagoland Doing my best to annoy nearly everyone since 1945. webcams at http://w9ol-towercam.webhop.org:8080 weather at http://hhweather.webhop.org:8080 _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software. _______________________________________________ Flexedge mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexedge_flex-radio.biz This is the FlexRadio Systems e-mail Reflector called FlexEdge. It is used for posting topics related to SDR software development and experimentalist who are using beta versions of the software.
