As a first encounter with database archiving, FoxPro is a nice challenge. This is the story of our first database archiving attempt. The archive institution received a PC as part of a journalist’s archive and amongst other things there was a custom-made database application installed on it. While the PC was still working, it was pretty old and looked like it could die any moment. A Ghost image was created A.S.A.P. but the image was created with a version of Norton Ghost that is not recent enough to convert it in a virtual machine, but we can explore the image....
