[Papyrus-L] backing up Papyrus for PC

[John E Cox]

John

I've been using a 2GB JAZ drive for about 18 months in exactly the same way 
as you (wouldn't be without it !) but with no problems accessing any of the 
three copies.  I had heard before I went to JAZ that they were not very 
robust so I discarded one at the very earliest hint of a problem several 
months ago, even though it was  expensive.

John Cox

PS Dave, where is that Windows version ?


--On 30 May 2001 16:22 -0500 john rodgers <jrodgers at bcm.tmc.edu> 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
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>
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