My solution was
to spend the equiv of $200 on a USB external 60Gb hard drive and backup
scheduling software (not the windows one – it creates it’s own
compressed files which is a pain). So every day, while I’m busy eating my
dinner and watching people kill each other on BBC news, my computer busies
itself by copying any recently changed files in the entire c:/program
files/equis directory, amongst others, to ‘drive G’.
Any restoration
is simply then a matter of finding the right file on G: and pasting it back to
where it came from.
OTT?
Maybe…but I have reduced by one the number of things in my life which
might possibly cause me heart problems. Money well spent I say. Doing work over
again is not good fun. We’ve all been there…
Oh, and it has
the added benefit that there’s plenty of room for my entire database…so
I back that up once a week too. So make that a reduction by two! AND…I
can just pick up my USB drive with all my work on it and go. Great if I want to
use it with my laptop or on another PC.
Andy
PS, I do not
work for, or know anyone at, Iomega…this is not Spam!!!
From:
Harry M. Ward [mailto:hmw3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004
4:53 AM
To: equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [EquisMetaStock Group]
Re: Backups a necessity for MS 9
On 8 Sep 2004 17:36:10 -0000,
superfragalist wrote:
>>I
>>keep a copy of a small 40 KB file of
ST_Data. I export the custom
>>systems tests and anything else I've
added, store the large ST_Data
>>file and load the smaller one. Then I
download all of the custom and
>>new systems stuff. Once that's done, I
make a new copy of the ST_Data
>>file while it's small and use that one as
my new small copy.
I have run into problems with corrupted ST-Data
files in the past, and
I also keep a back up---but certainly not
organized as well as the
method you describe. With Ver 8.01 and Win 98SE,
anything larger than
about 250 Meg, and I am sure to get the dreaded
"max locks per file"
error message. (Changing setting in the Registry
does nothing).
However, the smallest ST_Data file I have is about
4 Meg.
I am unclear what your exact procedure is. I
understand the export of
all of the Trading Systems. But I am not sure how
you get your base
"40 KB file". Do you delete ALL of the
Trading Systems, close MS, and
then save the resultant ST_Data file? Or do you
create it some other
way?
And once you have that small 40 KB ST_Data file,
then do you manually
import back in all of your Trading Systems? Then
do you close MS
again, and that (now somewhat larger) ST_Data file
becomes your
working file?
Thanks for any clarification,
Harry
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