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I highly recommend SecondCopy, a set and forget
backup software you can find at <A
href="">www.secondcopy.com.
It not only supports selective backup and
compression (standard ZIP format), but also supports synchronization, which I
use to sync the "My Documents" folders of my PC and Laptop.
I also use it to copy TC2000 data from Laptop to PC
so I can use the data on both places with only one subscription.
Very useful if you have multiple computers on a
home network so that they can back up each other. Also good with an external
drive, or two physical hard drives on the same computer.
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>From:
John
To: <A title=amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
href="">amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 6:53
AM
Subject: [amibroker] Backing Up
Data
Group,Speaking of backing up data, can someone
describe their way? I have data in both ascii and metastock both going
back for quite a while. I plan to burn it to cd's. Do you do it seperately
in years or by market. What about compressing the data. Anything else to
keep in mind?I changed the title for future reference.
Thanks,John--- In amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Michael.S.G." <OzFalcon@xxxx> wrote:> Hello Ron,>
This sounds like a resonable plan, Except the backing up to external USB
drive.> To put it simply - Hard Drives are still fragile things, And
having one > Eternal to your> computer is ok as a Transit
device, But not a backup
device.> External
HD is not safe for Backup's!> > You would be worth popping in a
CD-Burner (Cheap now) if you havn't already got> one, And Backing
up to CD. Even more so now that CD-R is so darn inexpensive.>
> Tape backup is generaly too expensive AND IMHO not particualy
reliable.> I have had Data backed up on DAT, only to
loose it when I tried to > restore - And> the Dat drive ate
my tape :-(> > Currently, I Backup to a fileserver running RAID
array. So if one of the > HD's crash & Burn - I Just pull it
out & Pop a new one in - The data is > rebuild on the>
new drive. There is a cost of course - You need x4 HD's to make the
RAID> and you loose the space of 1 drive. ie 480gb ends up
360gb.> > Anyway - I would not recommend using an External drive
as a backup system.> By the sounds of your setup - You would be
better burning to CD.> > Also, Definatly leave that 1.6 gig free
on your C: drive. As Graham said, > temp files and the like need
space to work in, Also - You never know what > you might copy
to> the desktop..........> >
KR>
Michael.> > > > > > > At
04:27 PM 15/12/2003, you wrote:> >Thanks for all of the great
feedback. This 20 gig was installed by my > >son, and the
computer does recognize that it is there, but he is > >unavailable
to me right now. I also just bought an unusual SIIG PCI 133 >
>card that has these external receptacles>2 )USB2.0 receptacles
and 1) > >firewire and
1)10/100 Ethernet Port, and inside it has 1) USB2.0 >
>and 1) firewire. I installed it myself, but the installation
did not go > >exactly as the instructions said that it should. I
then followed the > >instructions to see if the
installation was successful. There were a few > >differences in
the items that got installed in my computer when compared > >to
what it said should be there. I plugged the Ethernet port in and it
> >works fine. I immediately emailed support about the
differences on > >Saturday, the day that I installed the
card. Because of problems in the > >past, I have decided
to wait for SIIG's advice. I also bought a Western >
>Digital USB2.0 external HD that I will install as soon as I hear from
SIIG > >about the differences in what was installed. I was wanting
to use this > >external USB drive for backup, and use the 20 gig
inside the computer for > >only data, and then devote the 9.3
gig internal drive to programs and the > >XP Pro operating
system.> >> >My past Outlook Express bad inbox problem was
solved by changing the name > >of it to inboxbad.dbx .>
>> >The spell-check in my notebook is dull, and does not work,
will it also > >create a new spell-check if I find the file, and
rename to > >spellcheckbad.dbx? I haven't yet looked for it,
so I just made-up a name > >for it.> >>
>Thanks again for helping me into the 20th century. At least I can
now see > >the door of the 21st century. Later Ron
D> >> >> >> >> >-----
Original Message -----> >From:
<mailto:jcasavant@xxxx>Jayson> >To:
<mailto:amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 10:44 PM> >Subject: RE:
[amibroker] 1.65 gigs OK for awhile?> >> >Alternately many
drives come with a CD that does most of the grunt work > >for
you (Format, Partition, copy old files to new drive etc) . I just >
>installed a new drive (160gb $99 US from staples!!) Friday and found
the > >process to be well documented and relatively
painless...> >> >Regards,> >Jayson>
>-----Original Message-----> >From: Graham
[mailto:gkavanagh@xxxx]> >Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 7:09
PM> >To: amibroker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: RE:
[amibroker] 1.65 gigs OK for awhile?> >> >Hi>
>There are a few things you would need to do. Jope I have it correct
have > >just gone through this m=yself when the "experts" stuffed up
installing a > >new drive on my older computer, motherboard was
limited to 40GB and I > >could only buy 80GB so had to partition
it as 2x40GB and install it > >correctly. One "expert" had told
me it could not be done due to the age of > >my motherboard
(~3yrs old), but having broken my teeth in the old days > >when
fast comps were 12MHz and HDs measured in MBs found I had to do it
> >myself anyway.> >> >1. The hard drives, new
and old would need to have the dipswitches set so > >that the
old one is Primary and new is secondary. These settings are >
>available in the information manual you should get with the hard
drives, > >or you can get them from the websites of the
manufacturers.> >> >2. You would need the comm cable for
double hard drives, end conection is > >the C drive normally
(this is wide flat cable with the red edge stripe > >positioned
furthest from the mother board.> >> >3. Run Fdisk to set
the new drive to be set as usable dos drive (not sure > >if XP
does this for you?) and format the drive> >> >4. Windows
will then recognise the drive and you are in business.> >>
>> >> >Cheers,> >Graham>
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>-----Original Message-----> >From: mrdavis9
[mailto:mrdavis9@xxxx]> >Sent: Monday, 15 December 2003 7:58
AM> >To: amibrokeryahoogroups> >Subject: [amibroker] 1.65
gigs OK for awhile?> >> >Sorry about this off topic, but
this post below to TC support was > >rejected, and don't know
who else to ask? TIA for all advice. Ron D> >> >>
>==============================================> >This was
rejected by the TC2k support server.> >My computer's 9.3 gig HD is
almost full. It has 1.65 gigs of free > >space. I have
installed a second HD to handle additional data, but I have >
>not found anyone yet to configure it so that my computer will be able
to > >use this extra HD capacity.> >> >I ordered
a TC2k CD that I was told I would be able to download data >
>starting on Jan 12,2003.> >> >If I am able to
hire someone to make this second 20gig HD available by >
>January 1,2004,> >do you think that It will probably be OK to
add TC2k now so that I can > >start using the TC2k data? I
have XP pro, and do not have any crashing > >or freezing
problems at all.> >Ron D> >> >>
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