Lost Database

[Nicholas Evanson]

Help I've lost a database covering the last 4 seasons due to a computer malfunction.  Is there any way of getting the data back?

[Pioneer]

Other recipients:

Is it reasonable to assume that your database was saved to your hard drive? If so, and if the hard drive is “readable” you should be able to get the data copied. If you can’t access the hard drive it’s quite likely that your local computer repair

Is it reasonable to assume that your database was saved to your hard drive? If so, and if the hard drive is “readable” you should be able to get the data copied. If you can’t access the hard drive it’s quite likely that your local computer repair shop can.

For future reference, I would suggest that backup copies of your database are stored both on your hard drive and on removable media, 2 or 3 copies.

I hope you can recover the data.

[Kieron Thwaites]

My own "backup" strategy, if one could call it that, is to have my TCS database automatically sync to my OneDrive account.  Not only does this keep things backed up, but I also use this to keep things in sync between my scoring laptop and my TCS Lite desktop at home.  Periodically, I'll also take manual backups of the database and save them to other cloud providers as an additional safety net.  Lastly, at the conclusion of each match, I take an XML export and save that too, which is my worst case scenario restoration plan.

All hard drives will fail eventually, so if data retention is important, some form of backup strategy is mandatory.

--K 

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