[X4U] Re: Un-erase?

[Richard Gilmore]

I backed up actually but on another machine through our network. The only
thing I lost was my Entourage email database. I reinstalled the system on my
machine then deleted the backup on the other machine. Then what I did was
put the Entourage database back in the Documents folder then my mistake was
to install Office 2004 and what it did was write over the old database with
the new one it made during the install and poof all my mail was gone. I
should have not been so quick to delete the backup or burned it onto DVDs
but the backup was so huge that it seemed impractical to burn it all, it
just would have taken too long. So I learned my lesson. I'm trying to look
at it as a purge, a chance to start fresh.


On 4/7/05 1:20 AM, "Timothy Luoma" <lists at tntluoma.com> wrote:

> 
> On Apr 7, 2005, at 1:09 AM, PoolMouse wrote:
> 
>> Timothy Luoma <lists at tntluoma.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> On Apr 3, 2005, at 10:41 PM, PoolMouse wrote:
>>> 
>>>> restore from backup.
>>> 
>>> wow, how helpful.
>> 
>> give me and i'll russle up a magic wand. :) seriously though, these
>> types of scenarios illustrate the importance of backing up.
> 
> Anyone can look at an barn door and say "Shoulda closed that...." as
> the horse rides off down the trail.  It's being true doesn't make it
> helpful.
> 
> A helpful response to illustrate the importance of backing up might
> have suggested some actual backup tools that the original poster might
> have used to avoid this in the future.
> 
> TjL
> 
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