| From: | Glenn Carey |
| Date: | 31 Jan 2000 at 15:45:01 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: PFS3 |
From: Glenn Carey <glennc@urbancom.net>
EMP stand for Elctro magnetic pulse, it will probably be used as the
first step in the start of a Nuclear war, it is generated by a high
altitude atomic blast and is supposed to fry all non hardened electronic
circuits, If that happens I don't think I am going to be worried about a
backup, the only thing you can do is BOAKYAGB :)
Martin Steigerwald wrote:
>
> From: "Martin Steigerwald" <m.steigerwald@haage-partner.com>
>
> Xavier Messersmith <xcaliber@xav.to> wrote on Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:01:24 -0800 about
> "[amigaOS3_5] Re: PFS3" in <yam8064.1245.145524824@zy.zcc.net>:
>
> > The people (or person?) that works on PFS3 offers to fix/retrieve the data on
> > a drive that went down due to the filesystem or somesuch. A nice perk.
>
> Indeed. That is a nice offer.
>
> > > Apart from that one should always have a backup,
> >
> > For a good few people that isn't wholly feasable, unfourtunately.
>
> Their loss. Today one usually can really buy enough hardware to make
> backups regularily.
>
> > > 1) cause unless you have a completely failure-proof (maybe journalling -
> > > i.e. a filesystem that is programmed to expect and to handle failure)
>
> > Like an EMP? ;-)
>
> Whats an EMP?
>
> > The PFS recovery tools suck. Since I wasn't able to get the latest PFSDoctor
> > out of the upgrade I can't speak for the newer one. (I haven't gotten any real
> > help with this either, pretty clear to me that the PFS people enjoy choosing
> > their fights)
>
> The newer one should handle at least a QUICK formatted partition, a thing
> the older one did not do.
>
> > For anything that isn't really simple I'd fall back on analyzing with
> > diskvalid and poking around with a block-editor.
>
> Not the solution for the average user ;-). But the average user can then
> send the harddisk to PFS3 company/author for repair.
>
> --
> Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - m.steigerwald@haage-partner.com
>
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