[Papyrus-L] backing up Papyrus for PC

[Hugh Gunz]

There's a very useful site operated by Steve Gibson at 
http://grc.com/clickdeath.htm which has a free downloadable utility 
(Trouble in Paradise) which diagnoses Zip and Jaz disks and drives for the 
dreaded "click of death" problem that bedevils Iomega's products. It 
doesn't rescue damaged data, but it does give pretty good warning that a 
drive or a disk may fail.

Cheers
Hugh Gunz

At 16:22 01-05-30 -0500, you wrote:
>For about six months I've been using a Jazz drive to carry my database from
>home to work.  At each end I copy it to the harddrive, so usually I have
>two back-ups for the database - one on the Jazz and one on the other
>hard-drive.  Recently I found that some of the records were corrupted; to
>make a very long story short I found I could not make .BB files from the
>database because of the corrupted records; could not run index
>regeneration. I ended up laboriously exporting all the good records I could
>identify and rebuilding 99% of the database (of over 30,000 records) from
>papx formatted files.
>    So the lesson is this: make your .BB backups sooner rather than later!
>
>    But I wonder if anyone else has had problems like this, and if anyone
>has had trouble using a Jazz drive.  I have had a very bad Jazz drive
>straight from the box, and another one that has intermitttent problems, but
>I've never had any OTHER problem with this drive.
>    Is there a way to do a checksum on a database to make sure it has been
>copied correctly?
>
>   -John Rodgers
>John R. Rodgers, Ph.D
>Assistant Professor,
>Department of Immunology
>Room M929
>Baylor College of Medicine
>One Baylor Plaza
>Houston, Texas 77030
>
>713-798-3903
>fax  713-798-3700
>jrodgers at bcm.tmc.edu
>http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/immuno/faculty/rodgers.html
>
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