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Information and Data Survival

This forum, and Beamalarm, together contain, and provide, valuable information to present and future owners of Foretravel coaches. Many of you, and past owners have contributed to the vast pool of information now available. I discussion yesterday with a prospective new Foretravler the topic of the Foretravel community, and the information presently available, to all of us, came up. We discussed how the old GMC, Bluebird, and others, had insured the survivabiliy of all the data by mirroring the web data on more than one server/site ( I really don't know the technology I'm talking about ). Has the survivabiliy of information/data been considered or discussed ?

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Quote from: toyman –
This forum, and Beamalarm, together contain, and provide, valuable information to present and future owners of Foretravel coaches. Many of you, and past owners have contributed to the vast pool of information now available. I discussion yesterday with a prospective new Foretravler the topic of the Foretravel community, and the information presently available, to all of us, came up. We discussed how the old GMC, Bluebird, and others, had insured the survivability of all the data by mirroring the web data on more than one server/site ( I really don't know the technology I'm talking about ). Has the survivability of information/data been considered or discussed ?
Dave, good question. For Foretravel Motorhome technical help and information links
It is incrementally backed up in 3 places as well as my laptop for safety. Too many years of work to risk losing.

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Berry, thanks for the info, backups are good.

But what my question was addressing is what happens to the data on your web site, or this forum if something happens to you, Steve and/or Michelle ? I knew I was indistructable at 17, but reverse those numbers to 71, and my presence seems more temporary.

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For what it's worth I mirrored the beamalarm site sometime back, just in case.  I have a lot of experience with the loss of important internet resources so now I mirror most things I find invaluable.  Many of the mirrors I've published and ended up becoming the definitive source when the original was discontinued.  I never published the beamalarm mirror because I never asked Barry if I could mirror it to begin with ;)  I agree the forum is incredibly important as well and hopefully it has good backups!

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With any luck this (and beamalarm) is on the "wayback machine". Google it! :)

Craig
 

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Quote from: wa_desert_rat –
With any luck this (and beamalarm) is on the "wayback machine". Google it! :)

Craig

The wayback machine somehow always seems to missing content, images, zip files, etc.