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Hi John,
Monday, December 15, 2003, 8:53:42 PM, you wrote:
J> Speaking of backing up data, can someone describe their way? I
J> have data in both ascii and metastock both going back for quite a
J> while. I plan to burn it to cd's. Do you do it seperately in years
J> or by market. What about compressing the data. Anything else to
J> keep in mind?
CDs are for backing up tiny little bits of data, if that. They hold
less than 1 gig of data, and I can almost guarantee that you will
find that very constraining over time.
One of the easiest ways to secure your data is to use something like
XXCOPY (freeware, although a 'professional' edition is also available
for corporate users). Then you make a little batch file telling
XXCOPY what to copy and where it's going. Then you put a shortcut to
that batch file where you keep your other important shortcuts. Get
yourself one or two large USB 2 externals, and run the data out to
one or both of them.
No, I don't separate anything. I clone the entire AB folder (and
it's subfolders) intact to my external drive. It is an absolute
cinch to restore the whole thing if I had to. I'd simply reinstall
AB on a new drive, then delete the entire installation and copy over
the backed up files. Bang, I'd be back in business.
With an external drive and a program like XXCOPY, you can write a
batch file so *every* file that cannot be simply reinstalled, all
your e-mail, data, files, whatever, can be easily and quickly piped
out to the external. And with the clone operation, the only data
transfered is what *needs* to be transfered: modified and new files,
which isn't that much on a daily basis usually.
Yuki
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