Subj : Re: Best WWIV board
To   : Recon #1
From : Weatherman
Date : Sun Jun 09 2024 06:57 pm


R> I so envy you having saved your highly modded 4.2x BBS man .. Mine got
R> lost on

I learned early on that backups are one of the most important things. Basically 
if you don't have backups, you are ok with the data getting lost.  

In the early days I did lots of WWIV modding (1984 or so timeframe).  I put off 
getting a tape backup unit and ended up having an issue where I lost months 
worth of custom mods.  After that disaster, I became a backup fanatic which 
follows me to this day.  

I'm just happy there are still people interested in BBSing and WWIV that still 
stay in touch and participate here.  

I will say that there was a period of time I was offline from BBSing - maybe 
two year or so.  I had recently divorsed and moved and my BBS PC was old and I 
ended up not powering it back on at the time.  I remembering thinking that I 
wouldn't be able to run it much longer anyway since it would only run on super 
old hardware.  Then virtualization changed everything.  Once that became a 
thing, I decided to try and virtualize my original OS/2 physical PC to see if I 
could get it back online.  

The process worked and I'm still here.  Everything just runs on VMs on a server 
that I run (24) different VMs anyway.  It costs me nothing more to do this and 
I'm no longer tied to hardware, so I can continue to run the classic BBS on 
even some of the most modern servers available.  Very cool!

- Mark

:.:       Weather Station BBS ú telnet://bbs.weather-station.org         :.:
:.:    http://www.weather-station.org/bbs ú Bel Air, Maryland - USA      :.:
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