Question about Hoster back-up

[tymzend]

Last night, I had a couple of problems right before the show started. These problems were induced by a mistake that I made. But, it all leads to a specific question.

We have a song where the graphics were just horrible. Deacon Blues, DKM-1109-15. By the end of the song, completely unreadable. So, I figure that I'll re-import it, and see if it was the CDG, or the file on my PC. Well, it took forever to read the song on that disc, and sure enough, it was just as bad after re-importing.

So, I decide that I'm just going to delete it out of the song database, and rebuild the database. Well, when I go to rebuild it after deleting the song, I get an error message about not being able to find a "jeterr35" (or something like that) file.

Well, at the bar there is no internet connection for me (this I didn't realize until AFTER I decided to uninstall and reinstall Hoster). Well, the Hoster installation couldn't register, and I didn't have a floppy disc with me for the registration, so at that point I'm screwed, right? No!!!! I did my disc copy to my back-up hard drive when I upgraded to the newest version of Hoster the previous week, so I'll just boot to the other hard drive and we'll be all set.

So, I do this, and I start Hoster, which immediately brings up another error message (SCODE - something or other). Which leads me to my question(s).

Would a corrupted version of Hoster mess up the backup copy on the other hard drive? Shouldn't the other hard drive be completely independent of problems on the drive I normally use? Do they share resources? If they are independent, then how on earth can one work, and not the other, when they are EXACT copies of each other?

When I do the back-up, I follow the instructions specifically, and make sure only certain boxes are checked, etc.

Well, what I ended up doing, was running home, loading Hoster back up, and getting back to start the show a little late. But, the Cubs game was on, so if there's a lot of people watching, we usually wait until after the game (it's a sports bar) anyway, so I walked back in the door just as the last out was made.

The show ended up running flawlessly, but this whole back-up deal really has me confused. I'm wondering now if my back-up is really reliable?