lots of sympathy from one who fried his HD two months ago..........I now also back up essential stuff on the server as well just in case Michael Ensor www.WellingtonLive.co.nz ----- Original Message ----- From: jac - WDVL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 10:38 AM Subject: [wdvltalk] [OT] Re: I'm Back!! lol
: Thanks Jan :o) yeah Crete was good, Alan & I got very drunk for the first : few nights (we'll call it unwinding shall we) lol. & yes, I had work to do : when I was away - a solicitors site which I started before I left but it ran : into some problems (emails & servers) that needed to be sorted so that cost : me 140 EUR in phone charges & a lot of stress/worry. actually looking back : on the last few weeks I think I could have done without them! :o) but ... we : enjoyed the time together & that's what counts. : At the moment I've accepted that most of the work stuff is gone forever & : just getting on with what I could recover. never gonna make that mistake : again though. Had a freak out last night - oh it's just so frustrating & : useless. and then i was getting over-tired and started making stupid : mistakes. it's funny looking back on it now - I turned into a 5 year old, : you know when they're crying & trying to speak at the same time & it comes : out kinda blurbering sob words?....well that was me last night at about : 1.30am telling Alan that I just "couldn't get it to work!!" lol : anyway...all is fine now.. trying to catch up on a week of work & having a : couple of Baileys. : : my best to everyone : jac. : : : > Jac, : > Oh no, that's terrible. Did you have a good time on your vacation? : > Did you do any work at that time? I hope you enjoyed your vacation. : > Tell us about it, it might make you feel better about the mess you : > have on your computers. : > : > Jan : > : > : > jac - WDVL wrote: : > > oh god what a nightmare I've just been through. : > > so the 80 gig hard drive (which I only bought 2 months ago) died on : Monday : > > morning... so even though it may have seemed from my emails I didn't : really : > > panic cause I thought "hey it's ok, I have my tape backups" - what a : mess! : > > The tapes turned out to be backups of empty folders. When I first got : the : > > tape drive I did a full backup but somewhere between then & last monday : I : > > apparently canceled during a backup & then all incremental backups were : just : > > of folders that had content that was modified. am I making sense with : this? : > > so I finally had to reinstall XP & All my programmes - & now I have : about 8 : > > complete site folders out of say about 40. Site files, png source files, : > > etc... all gone. at this stage I'm just grateful that the machine is in : > > working order again!! lol : > > : > > jac. : > > : > > DO YOUR BACKUPS & THEN DO BACKUPS OF YOUR BACKUPS!!! : : : : : ____ . The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM . ____ : To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: : http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub : : ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ : : You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% : : ____ • The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM • ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
