>   
    >>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   
      
   --- GEcho/32 & IM 2.50   
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