#Disaster Revisited!!!
14-Nov-90 18:30:54
Sb: #6068-#Disaster Revisited!!!
Fm: Bob Rakosky 75156,336
To: TIM STONIS 72507,775
Tim,
I see from subsequent messages that you have resolved some of your
problems. There is one statement in your message that bothers me, and I
thought I'd comment on it. You stated: "Please don't tell me I have to
back up my drive … Do I look like I'm made of disks?". Now, I can very
well understand that sentiment (as I've two 320 meg hard disks – 1 on the
Amiga and 1 on a PClone – which takes A LOT of disks to do a backup), but I
think you're looking for trouble without any type of backup. Trust me,
sooner or later, you will wish you had made the effort to take a periodic
backup. It is inevitable.
My advice is not coming from self-serving motives, but from a lot of
experience with computers and hard-disks. While at one point, I was
selling a commercial HD backup program, this is no longer the case and I
have nothing to gain from your choosing to or not to backup your hard disk.
But I sure don't want to be in a position of saying "I told you so" a month
or seven from now.
Hope this helps…
…BobR
White Wolf Productions