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How long has it been since you last tested your backups?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 30 2015, @09:07PM
Back in my Windows 98 days, I used to backup my MS Money database to a floppy regularly. It seemed like a safe, reliable system, and never gave me any errors, until... I decided to upgrade my operating system and wanted to do a fresh install on a new, larger, faster hard drive. No problem, I have the database backed up to floppy. Surprise surprise, the floppy kept spitting out "unable to read, disc read error" or something. All this time Windows never told me there was a problem with the floppy. Luckily, I still had the old hard drive, shoved it in a USB enclosure, and dug through the files to find my last money database. I've since converted to Linux and do time stamped backups to a few flashdrives.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Friday October 30 2015, @10:35PM
Back in ye olde days, my father's 386 couldn't read 3.5" disks from other computers and his 3.5's couldn't be read on other PC's. His friend, an old unix hacker, finally figured out what the problem was: the floppy drive had a slight misalignment of the heads. He had to buy a new drive, install it and painstakingly xcopy a:\* b:\ for over a hundred disks. Oh, right. He had 10yo me do it. Fun times.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @04:05AM
Mmm. When I used to burn dvds, I tried to check readability in a different drive, than the original. Showed me that crap-cheap dvd drives handle DVD+R better than DVD-R (could read only the first 800 meg . . . weird); more often that it caught burn errors.
I have a bit of a mess on my hands now. About 100 dvds from 2006 - 2009.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @03:05PM
Did you ever run into the problem where Windows permanently handicaps the CD/DVD drive if it encounters a read error x number of times with a disk? It makes DVD video playback very slow and/or choppy. The only way to fix it is by shutting down the PC, disconnecting the drive, reboot, shutdown again, re-connect the drive, reboot again... Or hack the registry. That used to royally piss me off.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 31 2015, @11:53PM
No. I switched to linux (redhat 9 / fedora 2 / knoppix 3.3 ) on my primary systems in 2004 - 2005, before I started burning dvds.
(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Friday November 06 2015, @03:32PM
Totally off topic, but...
When you switched to Linux, did you find a suitable replacement for Money? I think my mother might *still* be using an ancient Dell desktop solely for Money, because she can't find anything else that will track investments as well as that 13 year old copy of Money 2002. We tried a bunch of iPad apps, and various Linux finance apps, and nothing worked for her. I think the main problem was directly integrating with all the various financial institutions. There's plenty of apps that will connect to your bank and pull your savings/checking info and break it all down, but apparently none of them can do the same for investments. Or they can't do both at once or something.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 07 2015, @02:04AM
I don't do investments any more like I did when I was using MS Money, I only use it for a checking/savings register. I'm using kmymoney for that, it's the closest thing to MS Money I've found. It does have an investments account section... https://kmymoney.org/ [kmymoney.org]