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Guy,
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll check them out.
JimG
-----Original Message-----
From: Guy Tann <grtann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <metastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thursday, January 07, 1999 7:36 PM
Subject: RE: email Chart List
>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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