Subj : imaging
To   : mark lewis
From : Bob Seaborn
Date : Sun Mar 17 2013 10:16 am

>
>>BS> I have an os2 box (that runs my Fido system) with HPFS
>>BS> formatted drives and the drives are failing.
>
>> what'd you ever do concerning this, bob? did you get what you
>> needed? which method did you use? ;)
>
>BS>       About a week ago, the OS/2 boot disc self destructed,
>BS> refusing to boot (couldn't find PMSHELL.EXE).
>
> ouch! but we knew it was coming, right?


     I'm actually surprised that it lasted as long as it did.  Especially as
I had Quantum HD's in service.  :)


>
>BS> Luckily I did have a valid current backup of all my Fido stuff,
>BS> including undelivered outbound traffic.
>
> that's a good thing...


     Normally I do a complete weekly backup, however this time I had made it
about 30 mins before the system self-destructed.


>
>BS>       So with the help of my son (and Charles Cruden - author of
>BS> Internet Rex), I reinstalled the complete Fido system on an OS/2
>BS> setup on one of my son's VMWare servers, and (so far) looks like
>BS> everything is flowing smoothly.
>
> double ouch! at least you didn't loose it all and decide not to come
> back...


     That was not even considered.


>
> when i had a similar problem a little while back, i was very glad that i
> had decided years ago to have one partition for the OS and other
> partitions for all my other stuff... that way if the OS went south, as
> it did, i only needed to grab the other partitions and fit them into a
> new installation... in my case, i went from Warp 3 Connect to eCS2 but
> everything else stayed the same... i'm even using my 4OS2 and 4DOS as
> i've always done and not that which comes with eCS (4OS2 only)... i'm
> still running my old reliable Apache 1337 server ;)


     Right now I can't consider the cost of eCS as a worthwhile expense.



>
>BS>       As of this weekend I did change my nodelisting to remove the
>BS> POTS line, as the last call was received on it on March 04, 2012 -
>BS> from an ip-capable Fido node.  I don't operate any form of bbs, so
>BS> see no need to maintain a POTS line that's rarely, if ever, used.
>
> i can understand that... there's not many POTS only systems coming into
> fidonet these days and for those that are, there are plenty of POTS
> capably systems that can handle their needs ;)


     True.





                      .....Bob

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