On Sunday 28 Sep 2003 4:55 am, Lance Cummings wrote: [rearrainged and snipped] > One of the things you missed while you were gone is that the refresh > rate is now settled successfully. I originally sent the mail on Thursday, but had forgotten to set my email address in KMail. Newbie and expert were quietly ignoring all my posts. On Saturday I posted to another list that was good enough to bounce back a refusal.
I did notice that in the meantime you had solved the problem, but I thought there was enough useful stuff in the post to resend it anyway. I'm glad to hear everything is working now. > > Phew! I'm back again. I just had a very nasty disk crash taking / > > and /home away to the filesystem in the sky. I even *considered* > > doing a backup the day before... So forgive me if I sound > > forgetful, I would have to visit the archives to check up on the > > thread. > > No problem. My sympathies, and I was there once. I never want to be > there again, and backups are done too often now. <g> I use a big > portable USB drive, normally offline, and image partitions to it, > and I also have a batch file I run using a neat little (Windows) > utility called xxcopy. Clones the essential files very very > quickly. The batch file is very nice -- I can dump every essential > file on the box to that USB in just a few minutes. The imaging > program is Acronis True Image, which is another real nice piece of > work, allowing any Windows partition, including XP and 2000 system > partitions, to be imaged on the fly from inside the GUI. If you, (or anyone else) have any suggestions for an automated backup to CD-RW that I could fit and forget I would love to hear about it. Part of the problem is that it is so labour intensive to do the backup. If I had a tape drive I know I could do it. ...Hmm does MDK9.1 still have a driver that little IOMEGA 125MB tape drive that fitted onto the floppy bus? I still have one of those somewhere, and a whole box of tapes unopened. > Thanks for your help Richard. Please keep an eye on my threads so > you can grasp just how much one human being does not know. You're probably the list expert on modelines now ;-) -- Richard Urwin
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