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I'm sorry to hear what happened to your records. We have Follett also--we back up nightly on the C drive and weekly on floppy disc that I take home--this is the procedure that Follett recommended to us--there could be (Follett rep had this happen to her) the case of fire in the building that could destroy your backup file if left on the premise. It really doesn't take but minutes a day--but what a lifesaver if anything should (and easily COULD happen). Sort of like life insurance.... >>> Christine Findlay <FindlayC@CENTERVILLE.K12.OH.US> 03/01/03 08:59 AM >>> Lynn, it makes me sick to hear that you may have lost all of your data. I doubt there could be a way to recover 100% from that. Do you subscribe to Alliance from Follett? If not, I would think that your district should buy a subscription to that as soon as possible....they owe you that much! With Alliance, you could get back records for most of the items on your shelves and that would be a good start. You are not going to have your circ history, but at least you could start circulating again. Maybe as you get records into Follett on the new server, you could put those books in a particular location and those are the ones available for checkout. This assumes they will replace the server right away. If you don't think that is going to happen, perhaps you should contact Follett and see about loading just the circ & cat modules on a single computer. I'm not sure if that is possible anymore, but it seems to me you need a viable way to start recovering MARC records. The Follett people are always so helpful. I hope you have called them for suggestions. Your note has helped to reinforce my theory that I both preach and practice: Don't count on your tech dept.'s backup. Always do a diskette backup at least once a week. You don't have to tell them you have it. It can be your own little secret and your own little salvation. We back up to a server and then to a vault. I think we are safe. But I still back up nightly to random machine hard drives in my media center and once a week to diskette. I'm not really paranoid. I've had to restore a couple of times and the tech dept.'s backup was never useful for that: bad tape; open files, blah blah blah. They say their new vault system will work and I believe them. But I am not about to recreate my media center from scratch, so I do my own backup, too. Christine Findlay Central Resource Center Centerville City Schools Centerville, OH 45458 findlayc@centerville.k12.oh.us Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:32:37 -0500 From: Lynn Autry <tlautry@EARTHLINK.NET> Subject: GEN: Losing your library data Has anyone ever lost their entire library data? Today our server died and according to the district technology people, the backup tape was corrupt. It appears not only that we have lost the entire Follett library program and data but our school's email and other programs on the server as well. This wasn't Friday the 13th was it? Anyway, tomorrow I will know exactly how bad everything is. I am being told though that it's BAD! My question is, has anyone ever experienced this before and if so, what plan of action do you suggest. There is no other backup. There are no shelf list cards. Everything was on the server. Our immediate plan is to limit checkout (we don't even know what books we have checked out now) and to use check-out cards. Fortunately there are some of those still around. It is going to be a mess. Any suggestions? Lynn Autry Central Hardin High School Cecilia, Kentucky 42724 270.737.6800 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archive: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml LM_NET Select/EL-Announce: http://www.cuenet.com/archive/el-announce/ LM_NET Supporters: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ven.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=- All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. LM_NET Help & Information: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ Archive: http://askeric.org/Virtual/Listserv_Archives/LM_NET.shtml LM_NET Select/EL-Announce: http://www.cuenet.com/archive/el-announce/ LM_NET Supporters: http://ericir.syr.edu/lm_net/ven.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-