Sad news..

[SuperSpeedMaglev]

Quite some time ago my computer broke..

Now it's back. But I've lost everything, including all my trainz content.


Just so I know, whats going on right now thats hot or whatever btw?


Not been here for ages lol.

 

[AHSAN]

in future backup

There are two types of people in this world, those who have lost data, and those who are going to lose data, please backup

 

[Sourdough]

Just so I know, whats going on right now thats hot or whatever btw?


Not been here for ages lol.

You were last here in May....nothing earth shaking since then...a bit of thread reading should catch you up..

 

[H222]

Devastating. You were missed greatly.

 

[cascaderailroad]

It is a good idea to back up your routes and assets, by saving your Userdata folder on an external hard drive (in TRS2006 it is your Local folder), for transplant back into the reinstalled game.

You will soon find that it is easy to rebuild your routes, and re-download your assets, in a small fraction of the time it took to build / attain them.

 

[Bill69]

It is a good idea to back up your routes and assets, by saving your Userdata folder on an external hard drive (in TRS2006 it is your Local folder), for transplant back into the reinstalled game.

You will soon find that it is easy to rebuild your routes, and re-download your assets, in a small fraction of the time it took to build / attain them.

This is a good idea but it is quicker to backup to another internal drive. In the old days of scsi drives they used to loose all data if unplugged but that does not apply with IDE or SATA drives. So as long as you backup to a separate physical drive, i.e. not just a partition on your main drive, your data should be safe. Only one note, if you are running 2 or more SATA drives configure them as IDE drives, if they are configured as a raid when one goes down you will loose data on the other one.

Cheers,
Bill69

 

[JCitron]

I can't vouch any louder than everyone else here on the greatness of backups!

Monday was a non-Trainz day, well a non-everything day. My data drive finally gave up the ghost rather suddenly. I was going to work on my route and clicked on the Launcher icon and got a buzz-click, buzz-click, repeatedly every time I accessed it. I then tried to get to the drive via Explorer and got the same thing.

I had a backup I had done on Saturday night which contained everything up to that point. I was able to restore my TS12 install complete from backup as I backup everything initially then do a diff backup to the same folder, as well as my documents, pictures, and TransDEM working files. The restore process took 5-1/2 hours to bring my data back.

The mere couple of hours it takes, if that long at all, to do my diff/size and date backup of everything on that drive, was worth more than I can say. Sure I lost 5 hours on the restore, but it could have been a lot worse. Shame on you for not planning for the worst. It's a fact of life with personal computers.

John

 

[boleyd]

TS2012 seems to be a very portable product. I have moved it, and the data, by a simple copy/paste of the entire Trainz folder a few times. The latest is a copy/paste backup from an SSD to a hard-drive. 60gb of data estimated at 10 minutes. Running right now (thanks for the reminders). I fear that the TANE product will not be so friendly as N3V assumes you are a crook for their safety. But who knows. So long as it stays out of the Windows registry, and the special data storage folders, it may be as portable as TS2012.

 

[JCitron]

TS2012 seems to be a very portable product. I have moved it, and the data, by a simple copy/paste of the entire Trainz folder a few times. The latest is a copy/paste backup from an SSD to a hard-drive. 60gb of data estimated at 10 minutes. Running right now (thanks for the reminders). I fear that the TANE product will not be so friendly as N3V assumes you are a crook for their safety. But who knows. So long as it stays out of the Windows registry, and the special data storage folders, it may be as portable as TS2012.

It's too early to tell yet. Let's hope it is just as portable as the old versions. It makes data management a nice easy task.

John