>
 >>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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