Disk vs memory

Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
Tue Jan 30 10:42:28 PST 2007


Microsoft has released a great similar tool, SyncToy.
I love it. ;- )  Got backups everywhere....

Art

On 1/30/07, Steve Cavanaugh <scavanaugh at nat-seattle.com> wrote:
> You've probably lost your files for good.  Unless you specifically set
> up an alternate location for backup files, there isn't an automatic
> feature to make backups.
>
> This is a good time to point out that there are some great utilities out
> there that help in this regard.  I use a free one called Karen's
> Replicator (http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp) It
> makes backups from whatever folder structure I want, to whatever folder
> structure I want, on the schedule I set.  All of my work has three
> copies, one on my machine, one on the file server, and one on a backup
> server, and all of this happens behind the scenes without any manual
> intervention by me.  This has really saved my butt a few times!
>
>
> Steve Cavanaugh
> Sr. Technical Writer
> NAT Seattle Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces+scavanaugh=nat-seattle.com at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces+scavanaugh=nat-seattle.com at lists.frameusers.com]
> On Behalf Of Michael.Long at thomson.com
> Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 7:56 AM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Disk vs memory
>
> All,
>
> My associate and I have just discovered that all our work in FrameMaker
> yesterday is likely lost. The network people were updating servers
> yesterday and unknowingly lost our files and probably others. Can anyone
> tell if and where I can find those files on our C drives, which I assume
> is the "disk" referred to in Frame doc?
>
> I recall and find references in Frame doc to the interaction between
> computer memory and disk, which suggests that copies of all saves are
> stored on C. But I find no information identifying a location on the
> disk that files are saved to.  A search of C for the .fm files didn't
> turn up the targets.
>
> Tips are welcome--the sooner the better.
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>
>
> Mike Long
> Team Leader, User Documentation
> Thomson Medstat
>
>
>
>
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Art Campbell                                             art.campbell at gmail.com
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