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    From pweck@23:1/1 to All on Sunday, September 27, 2026 22:05:11
    regularly copy old files and logs to separate storage before drives fail

    decades of history can vanish with a single disk crash - a monthly backup routine protects what can't be replaced

    pweck
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  • From Bucko@23:150/11 to pweck on Monday, September 28, 2026 20:31:42
    On 27 Sep 2026, pweck said the following...

    regularly copy old files and logs to separate storage before drives fail

    decades of history can vanish with a single disk crash - a monthly backup routine protects what can't be replaced

    I agree with you, but don't follow that rule of thought unfortunately.. Back in 1996 when my Lt Kernal HD for the C64 died, and I was burnt out, I took my backups (3.5 disks, approximately 65 of them) and tossed them in a box and that box went into my NY garage along with all of my Commodore hardware. Fast forward 20 years, I am moving into a new home and didn't want to take all of my museum computers (bad move, I should have kept it all), and gave those backup disks to a former partner of mine and he took them to see if they were any good, the disks had the only copy of a running Image BBS v2.0 in existence... He was able to image them and get everything off of them. Luckily for us he was able to do that. I agree back it up all to HD's, DVD's, CD's whatever.. I use a greaseweazel to backup my stuff now that is on floppy disks. I am still working on the 300 Commodore disks, and after they are done, the 500+ PC disks..


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  • From pweck@23:1/1 to Bucko on Monday, September 28, 2026 19:46:18
    I agree with you, but don't follow that rule of thought unfortunately..
    Back in 1996 when my Lt Kernal HD for the C64 died, and I was burnt out,
    I took my backups (3.5 disks, approximately 65 of them) and tossed them
    in a box and that box went into my NY garage along with all of my Commodore hardware. Fast forward 20 years, I am moving into a new home
    and didn't want to take all of my museum computers (bad move, I should have kept it all), and gave those backup disks to a former partner of
    mine and he took them to see if they were any good, the disks had the
    only copy of a running Image BBS v2.0 in existence... He was able to
    image them and get everything off of them. Luckily for us he was able to do that. I agree back it up all to HD's, DVD's, CD's whatever.. I use a greaseweazel to backup my stuff now that is on floppy disks. I am still working on the 300 Commodore disks, and after they are done, the 500+ PC d

    a great story! as i started to read i thought "oh no, all gone..."
    i think ive had 3 crashes and still not careful enough but getting better. my fear is my hard drive will crap out...i was running on a rasp pi 3b for a while
    and the micro sd card died losing everything - i guess i got real good at building my bbs from the ground up!

    pweck
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  • From Bucko@23:150/11 to pweck on Tuesday, September 29, 2026 20:24:55
    On 28 Sep 2026, pweck said the following...

    a great story! as i started to read i thought "oh no, all gone..."
    i think ive had 3 crashes and still not careful enough but getting
    better. my fear is my hard drive will crap out...i was running on a rasp pi 3b for a while and the micro sd card died losing everything - i guess
    i got real good at building my bbs from the ground up!

    pweck

    I know the feeling about SD Cards.. I was running a BBS back in 2018 (Commodore 64 BBS) on a uIEC/SD from Jim Brain, and the card went bad. Luckily for me, I had made a .bat file which backed up the entire card on a PC which took all of about 30 seconds. So I backed it up daily, pop it out, pop it into a PC and bang backed up. When that card went bad, I formatted a new one, created the partitions then copied the files back on took less then an hour.. Jeez.. LOL I also know what you mean about being good at building a BBS from the ground up, with all of my programming for Image, I can set one up completely from boot to main prompt in probably 10 minutes! LOL


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  • From pweck@23:1/1 to Bucko on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 07:11:51
    I know the feeling about SD Cards.. I was running a BBS back in 2018 (Commodore 64 BBS) on a uIEC/SD from Jim Brain, and the card went bad. Luckily for me, I had made a .bat file which backed up the entire card
    on a PC which took all of about 30 seconds. So I backed it up daily, pop it out, pop it into a PC and bang backed up. When that card went bad, I formatted a new one, created the partitions then copied the files back
    on took less then an hour.. Jeez.. LOL I also know what you mean about being good at building a BBS from the ground up, with all of my programming for Image, I can set one up completely from boot to main prompt in probably 10 minutes! LOL


    yup, you just never know somedthing will go wrong...computers are our friend until they're not!

    pweck
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