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Jim
Having gone through that exercise more than once, I finally got smart (at
least about backups). I know I don't have the decipline to back up daily so
I use an automated backup via the net. It runs daily or nightly when I shut
down.
Take a look at:
www.netstore.com
I think it costs me less than $10 a month and the couple of times I needed
it, it was worth it's weight in gold. I can recover back to whatever day I
want, however I usually just go to the last backup, which is yesterday's
EOD. The other reason I like this approach is that all of my stuff is
backed up off site. I don't know if you take the time to put your latest
backup in the trunk of your car, but any sort of major disaster will wipe
out your computer as well as your back up.
When First Interstate Bank had a fire here, the thing that saved their butts
(in their currency trading department that burnt up, was that they had a
policy of everybody backing up nightly and taking the backup diskettes home
with them. The next day they moved into temporary quarters, got some new
hardware, and were back in business.
Regards
Guy
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jim Greening
> Sent: Thursday, January 07, 1999 8:13 PM
> To: Metastock
> Subject: email Chart List
>
>
> All,
> I've been off line for a couple of days reconfiguring my
> new computer
> after I had to reformat my hard drive. I found a virus in my new computer
> that I couldn't clean so had to reformat. The virus was the reason I
> couldn't apply the new MetaStock patch. [Three cheers for
> Hewlett Packard
> for making the reformat and reconfigure process as painless as possible on
> my new HP computer with their recover CD.] The good news is that updated
> virus data file will now clean that virus. The bad news is that I had to
> recover from a Dec 26, 1998 data backup.
> That means that I lost everyone that asked to be put on my
> email chart
> list since Dec 26. Everyone that was on the list before then is still on
> it. If you asked to be put on the list after Dec 26 and still want on it,
> please yell again. Sorry about that <G>.
>
> JimG
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