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Aww rats, I might have lost my backup...

Rob85635Rob85635 Posts: 1,230 ✭✭✭
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As a computer technician I preach all the time about having backups of your data. My coins are in a .mdb (Access) database that I created from scratch. I had it on my laptop and desktop. I also made a backup on CD before I moved two years ago. I am fairly newly (coming up on 3 years) married and we have a 10 month old little girl. When I got married I put everything in storage and now that Agibail has been born and we are settled in our new house I am getting back into the hobby once again.

I had to reformat my laptop and I can't find the file on my desktop. Not to worry, it is on my backup CD... err, where is it, I can't find it. So far it is not in the boxes I have pulled out of storage.

I really hope I find it, because all I have is a printed copy of my collection and I really don't wanna make a whole new database and input all that data again. I just thought I would post this story to remind everyone how important data backup is.

I still have a lot of stuff to go through, I hope the CD shows up, if not... "Do as I say, not as I do." is the phrase of the day.
Rob the Newbie

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    STONESTONE Posts: 15,275 ✭
    The best of luck in finding your back-up CD image
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    RedTigerRedTiger Posts: 5,608 ✭
    For something like a coin data file, an online version is a reasonable idea. Attach and email the file to yourself or similar. USB hard drives are so-so cheap now ($99 for a terabyte), that is another option. Do both if a belt and suspenders type.
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    zeebobzeebob Posts: 2,825 ✭
    Fun story. Thank you for the reminder.
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    intenceintence Posts: 1,255 ✭
    i hate it when that happens. i have a feeling my 300gb external hd is starting to fail.......
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    golfer72golfer72 Posts: 3,588
    You mean Abigail right?
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    Raybob15239Raybob15239 Posts: 1,359 ✭✭✭
    I bought a memory stick / USB drive at Target on a whim (impulse purchase at the check-out) for $4.99. Best purchase I made in a while. Keep it on my desk and back up my check register and Morgan Inventory everytime I think about it.

    Successful B/S/T transactions: As Seller: PascoWA (June 2008); MsMorrisine (April 2009); ECHOES (July 2009) As Buyer: bfjohnson (July 2008); robkool (Dec 2010); itsnotjustme (Dec 2010) TwoSides2aCoin (Dec 2018) PrivateCoin Jan 2019
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    OffMetalOffMetal Posts: 1,684 ✭
    I had an 8gb memory stick that I used for nearly everything that I needed to travel with me, including a partial inventory of my collection... Dumb thing to keep with me, because I lost that flash drive at school... image

    My advice (being Captain Obvious here) is not to keep it with you and then lose it later...

    Ben
    -Ben T. * Collector of Errors! * Proud member of the CUFYNA
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    lope208lope208 Posts: 1,960 ✭✭
    I have my system back itself up every night at 10pm to my external hard drive.

    I also use either my email or Yahoo Briefcase to occasionally upload copies of my most important docs.

    If you don't have backup, DON'T OPEN ANOTHER THREAD UNTIL YOU DO!!
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    commoncents123, JrGMan2004, Coll3ctor (2), Dabigkahuna, BAJJERFAN, Boom, GRANDAM, newsman, cohodk, kklambo, seateddime, ajia, mirabela, Weather11am, keepdachange, gsa1fan, cone10
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    FranklinwhoFranklinwho Posts: 140
    just as long as you have pics of ur baby backed up then you should be ok. ya it might suck doin all the coin "work" again, but u cant go back in time for ur lil girl. best of luck, hopefully u find it.
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    BECOKABECOKA Posts: 16,961 ✭✭✭
    OK, getting my backup drive out now. image

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