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Due to my recent HD crash I lost loads of old stuff. With it most of the writings I had done to date. The more important ones are safe, as I have posted them to my website, but a lot of stuff 'in the works' was lost. Today I went down memory lane to try and resurrect some of those, and dug out my old collection of 3.5" floppy disks. And wonder o wonder, I am now happyily piecing together almost all of those lost writings. Ok, they might not be the most recent versions, but still.
So what do I learn from this? That regular backups are valuable? No. That regular SneakerNet movement of data has an almost archival side effect. Most of the parts I got back were put on floppy because I was moving between two or more PCs at that time. And the dataformat they are in is also a side effect of that: one PC had win95 with a upto date M$ Office, while the other only had win3.11 with standard Write installed (it was a 386), so I saved in Write format. That helped reconstruct some of the files, as I no longer have M$ Office around these days (it also kept the file sizes down).
My habit of burning CDs for data transportation nowadays is an direct ascendant of that startegy, and helped tremendously in regaining 'lost' data.
Who really suffered from that HD crash the most was Sandra who didn't move PCs all the time and thus had her data only in one place.
[ by Martin>]
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Big things to come (TM) 30th Dez 2002
