werner@utastro.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (06/04/88)
In article <2574@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, phil@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Phil Sohn) writes: > I highly recommend it. The only problem is that you need as > much blank space as used space to recover easily. (i.e. you need > another hard disk at least as big as the trashed on.) It will recover > to floppies, but that is a pain. I just thought that it might be worth adding (in case someone has need for such a feature) that you can recover data-files selectively also (all docs of a certain type, such as PAINT, WRITE, EXCEL, etc). If you keep all your applications backed up and only need to worry about data-files, this may well be the ticket to avoid the pain ..... thanks, Phil, for speaking up; it would have been a terrible disservice to the net to leave that original poster uncontradicted; some fellow-netter with disk-trouble might have avoided ZAP in result and ended up reinitializing his disk.... (ZAP sometimes can help you recover data even after initialization) in the past I have made new ZAP-parameter files available to the net (with permission from MicroAnalyst) but lately I have little or no luck communicating with the moderator of the sources and binaries (and I don't think that the problem is with at my end).