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You might want to consider keeping an offsite back up as well. Fire, etc.
can wipe out both drives. I do keep a back up on my second drive daily as
well as back up over the Internet.
For the time I saved after my C: drive went down and I couldn't access my D:
drive right away because of compression difficulties, I was very happy to
have a current copy available for downloading.
When I installed my new computer (Pentium 400, 8.4Gb and 5.25Gb hard
drives, 64Mb RAM to be upgraded to 128Mb, DVD-2, etc.) I was able to
download my MetaStock data and get running in minutes.
Wish I could say that about a few other applications. Now that I've learned
my lesson, I'm backing everything up to one of our other computers as well.
Everything that I don't have a source disk for will be backed up off site as
well as on my second drive and/or over our LAN here in the house to my 7
year olds P166 or my wife's ThinkPad 560. Better safe than sorry. I lost
almost 2 months recovering from that disaster. Never again!
Regards
Guy
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jim Dunlop
Sent: Monday, June 01, 1998 4:49 AM
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Power-cut
Louis,
I have a second hard drive installed so each Saturday I drag and drop my
Shares folder onto the second disk. When the second disk gets full I clean
it up.
If I loose my db again I can recover from the most recent daily data files
in a matter of an hour not days as before.
rgrds,Jim Dunlop
At 02:38 PM 31/05/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Tom.
>
>Thank you for your comments and suggestions.
>
>I managed to delete 3days of data (with Jan & Al help) and tried the
>conversion
>again with out any success.
>
>It looked to me that the downloader program it self were damaged.
>So in desperation I delated MS 6.5 from my PC.
>After reinstallation the conversion works, but now it takes very long to
>convert
>years of data,
>Now I am in the process of re building my old set up.
>
>looking back I should of had a back up.
>
>Any suggestion on setting up a back-up system will be apretiated.
>
>Thanks again.
>
>louis.
>
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JH Dunlop, Ferndale, WA 6148
(08)94517261
e-mail: DunlopJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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