Sounds like there are two lessons to be learned here; one by the client and one by the consultant. Maybe we should have charged him the $3K and then bought a server as a gift.

>I was able, with considerable effort, to reconstruct all of their data. Then I called the owner. I told him my invoice for the reconstruction work was $3,000 but, since he was a relative, I would cancel the invoice provided he used that money to buy a real server and a real NOS.
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>Last time I checked, they still had not done it. I am waiting for the next data corruption call.
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>Ken
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