[NTLK] Backup problems/missing restore files?

From: Jonathan Ramos (imagraphicstudios_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Sat Oct 26 2002 - 01:05:59 EDT


Hi guys,

    Last Tuesday, Oct 20, I was going on a trip. Just to be safe I backed up my 2100 before leaving, using NBU. The files sat in my PB G3. This is my first backup that contained everything since I started serious use of my Newton. During the trip, I installed Deep Green for fun and NoteSlider to try it out. On Wednesday, I found that files on my Newt was missing. The most current thing I
could find was dated Oct. 18. Due possibly to something I did after the new installations, I lost 4 days worth of info? How, I had no idea. As soon as I could I restored the Newt using the backup files I created on Oct 20.

    After restoring and resetting, my Newt was not fine. It only contained data from up to Aug. 23. Now I lost 2 months worth of files, notes, ideas, and such!!! I have no idea what is going on. I verified that the restore files I was using was created on Oct. 20. Unfortunately, I was only playing with my Newt since I got it at the beginning of the year up to this summer. Since then, I've been
working my way to being as paperless and more mobile with all my thoughts, ideas, and files. Seriously I've gotten good use out of my Newt and have got up to 75% of my life in this thing. So since August to now, I've got a lot of stuff lost. Fortunately, most of the important stuff was things I transferred from papers, files, and sketches. I'm a packrat by nature, so I still have all this and
I guess I have to take the time to transfer it all to my Newt again. I am a designer and a creative person, what I really hate though is that I've lost all my new ideas and thoughts that only my Newt had. Since this summer I've relied on my Newt to keep all that and I'd hate to think I can't recover any of that.

    If any one has any ideas or any suggestions to avoid this in the future, it would be greatly appreciated. Anybody who can explain what happened to my Newt gets a great big serving of poutine on me.

    By the way, in September, I did get a 2nd Newt for backup. My strategy was/is to backup once a week to the my desktop Mac (Note: before you all ask, I have no backup files on the this Mac) and my PowerBook and then sync up all my data daily with the 2nd Newt. I haven't had the time to set this up because I've been really busy but that's a major priority this weekend for sure.

Thanks,
Jonathan

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