Argh! where have all my stacks gone?

[Arthur Evans Jr]

>As I type, TechTool 3.0 is trying to find a whole bunch of stacks apparently
>deleted by Rev.

It may be too late for you, I don't know. But my advice for others 
and for you in the future is to use a REGULAR BACKUP STRATEGY!

If you ask yourself,
     What will I do if my hard disk ever crashes?
you are missing the point. Instead, ask yourself this question:
     What will I do WHEN my hard disk crashes.
Because sooner or later it surely will.

My personal backup strategy uses DAT tapes and Retrospect. The drive 
is expensive ($800 for a LaCie DDS-3 drive), but the media are cheap 
(about $12/tape in packages of ten). A tape holds over 10gb.

Because the tapes are cheap, I have lots of them. I've retrieved 
files backed up over a year in the past. I've more often retrieved 
files created a few days ago when I did something stupid today.

I maintain five active tapes, cycling through them each day. From 
time to time or when a tape fills I start a new one, saving many of 
the old ones. That's how come I can retrieve stuff from way in the 
past. From time to time, I store a tape off-site in case of a real 
disaster, like a fire.

Retrospect is a first rate program. Each day with almost no effort on 
my part it writes onto a tape whatever I've created since the last 
time I backed up onto that tape, usually about five days ago.

If you don't like DAT, use some other strategy. But, pick some 
strategy that with minimum effort on your part backs up all your 
files, and STICK TO THAT STRATEGY.

Good luck!

Art Evans