[Xastir] Tiger maps?

[Michael Lewis]

  On 9/5/2010 3:46 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Michael Lewis wrote:
>
>> Would I be missing any other files because the towns don't show up 
>> when I zoom in closer? Or would that be a setting in Xastir it's self?
>
> Could be either.
>
> I don't have Tiger2009 installed here, but have Tiger2008.  I just
> selected each file in a county directory one-by-one and didn't see
> city names show up either, but did see the yellow filled areas
> representing those towns.
>
>
>> You know what part sucked is having a hard drive crash on you about a 
>> week after you installed Xastir lucky for me I did not do much other 
>> then just install from the version that came with mint..
>
> Backups...
>
> I instituted backups at home finally for three machines and a
> laptop, all controlled via one desktop, backing up to an external
> hard drive.  Using BackupPC for that.
>
> Plus I just mirrored my home directory on my main box.  If one drive
> goes out I don't lose anything (so two layers of backups for that
> mount when you include the BackupPC backup).
>
> I use a few different backup schemes at work, but just set up Amanda
> again on one machine to back up another two machines.  I had
> recently lost one of the mirrored drives in that box, so set it up
> again with two newer drives (plus a spare on the shelf) that are
> larger.
>
> Some people like to back up important files to CD, DVD
> (R/W/eraseable perhaps?) or even flash drives.
>
> One thing that _will_ happen again and again:  Hard drives will
> fail.  Plan for it.  I've lost many drives over the years but
> haven't lost anything important yet.
>
well I know when I had the online tiger maps I could get them to show.. 
it's no big deal sometimes it's good to have a little bit better detail.

I've been trying to get in a habit of making backups more now.