Useful URLs

[Piers]

Having lost all my Favourites (DOH - back ups!) what useful boating URLs do you use?

<hr width=100% size=1>Piers du Pré
http://www.dupre.co.uk

 

[snowleopard]

her are a few

http://www.met-office.gov.uk/datafiles/inshore.html
http://www.met-office.gov.uk/datafiles/offshore.html
http://www.maalla.co.uk/uk-weather/syn.htm

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[Rabbie]

http://www.boat-links.com/boatlink.html

<hr width=100% size=1>A day not spent on my boat is a day in my life wasted.

 

[Rabbit]

Hello Piers,
I find this one accurate.
http://www.onlineweather.com/v4/uk/sailing/SF18.html

kind regards,
Les

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[pvb]

Just been there...

You really have my sympathy, Piers, because my trusty old Dell desktop died last week and to my horror I lost all my favourites too. However, a friend was able to interrogate my old hard disk and get lots of files off it, including my favourites. I have around 250 URLs in my "boating favorites", and I'll happily email them to you if you send me a PM with your email address. I'm now running a constant back-up with an 80Gb Iomega external hard disk, so hopefully next time I experience computer failure, I'll be able to get back to normal a bit more quickly!

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[Piers]

Re: Just been there...

The problem with the HD was in the drive, and no spares have been able to be traced in Europe or the USA, so no possibility of accessing any of the data.

Like you, I now have an Iomega running full time!

I will send you my details - thanks for the offer.

Piers

<hr width=100% size=1>Piers du Pré
http://www.dupre.co.uk

 

[Piers]

Is this the Les I know from the river Crouch?

<hr width=100% size=1>Piers du Pré
http://www.dupre.co.uk

 

[TrueBlue]

Backups (NB)

Just taking a copy of your hard disk is only the start as somehow once you have rebuilt your machine you have to get the data reregistered with the appropriate programs.

The only certain way to do a total backup is to use an image copy program such as Norton Ghost or Powerquest products. Providing you have the suitable hardware its just a matter of taking an image and restoring the same. The catch is suitable hardware.

If you haven't got a whole load of free space then something like Genie backup is a lot better than nothing. It will back up your favourites and Outlook data easily, but it takes a little bit more effort to save other programs data.

Genie is inexpensive as is Ghost. Power Quest partition magic and Drive copy are a little bit more.

It has taken me up to a week to get machines back to a reasonable state.

It's not a matter of if disaster strikes, it's when.

Do your backup; You know it makes sense

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Stop what you're doing and wait my signal

 

[boatless]

Re: Backups (NB)

Two hard drive failures in the past (Maxtor btw) and I now have 4 drives in a Raid 0/1 array in each machine (first bit writes data to two drives simultaneously, next pit doubles this up to replace lost speed. There's another hdd in a caddy that everything is copied to every night at shut down. The caddy comes out when I'm away. This is paranoia, can I get help?

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[pvb]

Ghost...

Norton Ghost came bundled with my Iomega external hard drive, but I have to say it seems impenetrably complicated. In comparison, the Iomega automatic backup program works very easily. Take your point on getting the data back into the programs, although in my case I was mainly concerned about Internet Explorer and Outlook Express, both of which have simple import procedures. And I was one of the people who always warned others about the need for regular backups - my last backup was in April!!

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[l'escargot]

When you have established your favourites list, save them here if any are of interest to you.

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[Rabbit]

Hi there Piers,
Yes its me.
We look forward to seeing you soon. Paris, all being well.
Take care,

kind regards,
Les n Yvonne.

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[towlerg]

Re: Just been there...

Hi pvb,

if you're funning microsnot explorer, try files/import and export/ and export favorites to either another hard drive drive or a floppy.

Rgds George

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[pvb]

Thanks...

I'm now doing constant backups of my favourites folder, using Iomega automatic backup. Live & learn!

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[oldsaltoz]

G'day Pier,
Here are a couple of links to start your favourites........and I hope stop the drift.


http://www.alltheweb.com/



http://boatdiesel.com/index.cfm?CFID=3819019&CFTOKEN=45135844&CFApp=19&&Red=NRU



http://www.boatingoz.com.au/newsframes.htm



http://www.sailingusa.info/parts_of_the_boat.htm



http://forums.torresen.com/eThreads/view/engines



http://www.boat-links.com/boatlink.html



http://www.mycq.org.au/links.htm



http://www.practical-sailor.com/



http://www.uksailmakers.com/home.asp



http://www.arthur-ransome.org/ar/literary/slocum2.htm



http://www.classicmarine.co.uk/articles/metals.htm



http://www.uksailmakers.com/encyclopedia/encyclopedia.html#1



http://www.geocities.com/roo_two/knotindex.html



http://www.williamkenyon.com/splicing.html



http://www.12volts.co.uk/



http://www.vtr.org/maintain/alternator-overview.html



http://www.yandina.com/galvanicIsolator.htm



http://www.adverc.co.uk/



http://www.emultihulls.com/



http://boatpoint.ninemsn.com.au/marketplace/usedboathome.asp



http://www.yachtsurvey.com/articleslist.htm



http://www.yachtpaint.com/intropage.htm



http://www.osmosisinfo.com/preview.htm



http://composite.about.com/industry/composite/msubmscore.htm



http://www.atlcomposites.com/west_system.htm



Avagoodweekend........



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[richardandtracy]

A few I find useful:-

Designs
http://home.clara.net/gmatkin/design.htm

Equipment
http://www.gaelforce.net/index2.asp

Clothes
http://www.the-outdoor.co.uk/

Making Things
http://www.backyardmetalcasting.com/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/mklotz.geo/#top
http://www.geocities.com/richardandtracy/sextantpage1.htm

Tips
http://www.bertram31.com/proj/tips/index.htm

Links
http://cruisenews.net/index.html

Free Publications/ charts
http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/
http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/
ftp://ftp.linz.govt.nz/pub/NTHA/chart_images/tifs/

Books (not free!)
http://www.lindsaybks.com/
http://www.instantboats.com/

Misc, tools & materials etc
http://www.chronos.ltd.uk/
http://www.screwfix.com/
http://www.machinemart.co.uk/

The ony one I have any association with is ..richardandtracy/sextantpage1.htm, and I can't make money from that.

Regards

Richard.


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[Aeolus_IV]

Re: Backups (NB)

No, not paranoia - I had my system on a RAID card using 4 x 18 GByte disks in RAID 5 mode - turn on system the other day and they are all blank. Couldn't convince the RAID card to pick up the pieces, so very pi**ed off, it's taking me days and days to get things back together. Now I'm trying to pull together something with 2 PCs, using the second as a "hot standby" with some sort of overnight refresh...

I hate PCs, /forums/images/icons/frown.gif

Jeff.

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[wiggy]

Chartplotter
http://www.sping.com/seaclear/

Weather
http://www.stronge.org.uk/

Tides
http://www.ukho.gov.uk/tideprediction

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[silverseal]

Do your self a favour. get a RAID controller and a second hard drive. This mirrors all data so that it writes to two HDs together and continually monitors all data. If there is a problem it lets you know, and having had a hd failure, you put a new one in, and it replicates it from the good existing one... I have not backed up any data for 4 years. PS I flog large computer networks.

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[BrendanS]

How easy is it to install this sort of setup into a typical home PC. Can you fit the raid controller and second drive externally as I'm not sure I've enough space inside, but do have firewire ports free.

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