Cobian Backup just saved my bacon

[John Hood]

My wife's Toshiba Satellite A15 would not power up. I'd get the power
light for a few seconds then nothing. Tech support's conclusion was
that the power subsystem was hosed.

I had forgotten that a while ago I had set up Cobian Backup 6 on her
computer to grab the My Documents folder and a bunch of other settings
(Her C:\documents and Settings folder "Desktop" "Favorites"
"Application Data" "Cookies" "My Documents". I just checked the backup
to see if it was restorable. The last one was from two nights ago. It's
all there. Halleluiah! Only thing we lost was info from Quicken and
Quickbooks.

Aha! Final note. The laptop is now booting again. Don't ask why.
Dodged the bullet on that one, but you can bet I'm double checking the
backups periodically. Whew!

John Hood
Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org
"The best home and business free software, no ads, no time limits, no
fluff."
"No kidding."

 

[Mel]

My wife's Toshiba Satellite A15 would not power up. I'd get the power
light for a few seconds then nothing. Tech support's conclusion was
that the power subsystem was hosed.

I had forgotten that a while ago I had set up Cobian Backup 6 on her
computer to grab the My Documents folder and a bunch of other settings
(Her C:\documents and Settings folder "Desktop" "Favorites"
"Application Data" "Cookies" "My Documents". I just checked the backup
to see if it was restorable. The last one was from two nights ago. It's
all there. Halleluiah! Only thing we lost was info from Quicken and
Quickbooks.

Aha! Final note. The laptop is now booting again. Don't ask why.
Dodged the bullet on that one, but you can bet I'm double checking the
backups periodically. Whew!

John Hood
Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org
"The best home and business free software, no ads, no time limits, no
fluff."
"No kidding."

I guess you'll be sending him a big donation.

 

[Buzzy]

I had forgotten that a while ago I had set up Cobian Backup 6 on her
computer to grab the My Documents folder and a bunch of other settings
(Her C:\documents and Settings folder "Desktop" "Favorites"
"Application Data" "Cookies" "My Documents". I just checked the backup
to see if it was restorable. The last one was from two nights ago. It's
all there. Halleluiah! Only thing we lost was info from Quicken and
Quickbooks.

Here's more info on Cobain Backup if anyone is interested:

http://www.buzzys.net/backup.html

HTH
Cheers!
Buzzy

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[John Hood]

I guess you'll be sending him a big donation.

Already done

John Hood
Web Site www.jhoodsoft.org
"The best home and business free software, no ads, no time limits, no
fluff."
"No kidding."