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Very Cool.   I am going to experiment with VPCs as soon as time permits.    Instead of having 3 PCs (Fax Server, Synapse Server, Asterisk PBX server) I could just have one !  Not sure SnappyFax would work in VPC.

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Graham:

So Qilin .. how did it work?

I suspect that if you ran it, it's still trying to OCR all 14k documents!

Haven't got the time to run it yet, will do it today or this weekend.  Only 3462 files left to backup.

Jason, what I did with my server is I have a Dell server running Synapse server and my PMS server under two different accounts.  I am not sure if it's a good idea to run actual server on VPC.  I only use VPC for non-critical things, mostly testing.

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I run everything as virtual PCs.

 

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Graham Chiu
Beta Downloads and Documentation Wiki

Hard drive of my office PC failed on me today, ruined my day.  Nothing got done, and I had to get a new drive, reinstall windows and everything

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I suggest you download this free drive imaging utility

http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp

and image each drive in your practice so that you can readily restore from these type of events.

Hard drives fail at the rate of 4-15% per annum  It doesn't take much math to figure out how long before you have another such event. 

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Graham Chiu
Beta Downloads and Documentation Wiki

qilin:

Hard drive of my office PC failed on me today, ruined my day.  Nothing got done, and I had to get a new drive, reinstall windows and everything

"my office PC"

ie. Your Server ?  Your client PC ?

I find Hard Drives are increasingly unreliable. 

Especially Hard Drives used via USB.  I have two Corrupt Hard Drives I need to attempt to "revive".   

With Synapse, it is easy to come up with a Disaster Plan.  I have two identical Servers.  The spare server sits beside the real server.  To enable it, I just transfer the mouse,keyboard, monitor, power, ethernet, USB stuff to it and boot it up.  It has the same IP as other server, so the clients find it easy.

Downtime like what you had is totally frustrating.   Once you are over the pain, firm up the disaster planning to avoid future headaches.  I am scheduling a review myself right now ! 

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It's the PC I have on my desk, I had Synapse server back up to this PC, so if the server is down, I will just launch the Synapse server and change the IP of this one.  I didn't think it's a big deal to reinstall a PC since I've done it numerous times.  Now I have to try Graham's recommendation to make the recovery faster and less painful.

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