On Thursday 22 May 2008 09:47:37 am S B wrote: > Frequent saves!!! > Scribus still crashes occasionally. I find that the backup > facility is very helpful, and I've had to use the emergency backup > from time to time. If I recall correctly, you can have Scribus > backup every few minutes or so--hardly a high price when you > consider the potential loss of data. Now if someone will tell me > how to get a month or so of Scribus documents back from a failed > hard drive....??? (now I backup more frequently...are you > surprised?) > Steve B. > > On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 5:14 PM, John Beardmore <John at t4sltd.co.uk> wrote: > > :) So Scribus doesn't attempt to recover the state of a > > : document that > > > > was being edited when it crashes then ? > > > > > > Cheers, J/. > > --
I have two hard drives, and use a surge protector. The newest/biggest hard drive is for work and the older/smaller one is for experiments with different distributions and more pertinently for my two backup partitions. Overnight my work files (/usr/local and /home ) are backed up to partitions on drive number 2. About every three years I buy a still newer and bigger drive. The oldest drive is retired, the remaining drive is demoted to backup duty and the newest is now the daily work drive. I buy hardware from Tiger Direct. I have a mid-tower computer and I run Linux primarily. With a laptop and/or MSWin things get more complicated. I only lose files through gross stupidity. No hard drive failures since I went on a three-year rotation. Hardware is cheap, data is (or are) expensive. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080522/69d21dbf/attachment.htm
