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The call came from Guinea, West Africa.  “Dave, the electricity went off while our computer was in the midst of Windows updates.  The drive crashed.  So can I just copy my Casper image to restore the drive?” 

Dave’s response?  “NO!  Don’t do that, or you will lose all your backed-up data. You need to physically move the drive with the image to your computer, and consider it your new drive.”  The conversation went on, and ended with Dave saying, “I’m so glad you called before attempting this.”

And Dave was genuinely thankful.  Because just last week, he had another call AFTER someone else had done the same thing. That man lost everything with no hope for recovery. 

Although Dave or his co-worker, Alan, go over the restoration procedure when setting missionaries up with a Casper backup system, many forget what to do.  And when they think they have lost everything on their computer, panic takes precedence over procedure. 

• With two similar situations within a week, Dave is considering how to remind all NTM computer users about how Casper works. Pray for wisdom and clarity as he writes up an article.

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Jan came to Dave with a problem.  Her printer gave out after 15 years of use.  Dave knew exactly what to do.  He pulled a printer out of the salvage pile.  Perfect solution!

Praise the Lord for the salvaged computer equipment rescued from the new building. And praise the Lord that Jan is back up and running.  May this printer last as long as her other one did.

By the way, for those of you who know the history of our family, Jan has been a big part of our lives.  She taught Nathan kindergarten, and Joy loved to go to her class while Ruth taught art.  In addition, Jan is the widow of Art – and Art worked with Dave for many years as the head of the Computer Department. It meant a lot to Dave to provide this small service for her.

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A few remaining tenants have been renting space at NTM’s new office building in town. These tenants are in the process of  moving out, and intended to clean out all their equipment, including their remaining computer equipment. They didn’t want it, and were going to hire a salvage company to come in and remove it.  Andy and Alan, from the Computer Services Department, were checking out some things at the building, and learned what the tenants intended.  They suggested that they could take care of it all, rather than the company hiring someone to do it for them.  So the Computer Department ended up with boxes upon boxes – keyboard, printers, monitors, desktop towers, UPS, and so on.  Dave and Alan worked one day last week, and Alan and Karl finished up.  Already, six missionaries have been blessed by some of these printers. Praise the Lord for this salvage!

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