Hi Herman,
It's a personal choice, but for me, given the size, cheap
cost, speed
and convenience, I'd always have a multiple physical drive
system. My
primary box has five hard drives -- three IDE and two SCSI. I
also
have an external USB that is 99 percent off line, turned on only
for
weekly imaging.
Removable drives ... sure.
RAID or
mirroring might be the safest, and of course if you are
*really*
determined, an off-site backup. But my biggest worry here
is "The Big One",
so I'd probably need foreign-country backup to be
really safe, or at least
hundreds of kilometers away. I think, even
now, that is available -- I mean
I am pretty sure that there are
services on line that will store your
backups. Cost, diameter of
pipe, and trust, would be some issues that you'd
need to assess.
Yuki
Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 9:50:44 PM,
you wrote:
H> May I ask: What would be the preferred backup
media?
H> TIA,
H> herman
H> -----Original
Message-----
H> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com]On
H>
Behalf Of Tomasz Janeczko
H> Sent: October 25, 2006 5:06 AM
H> To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com
H>
Subject: Re: [amibroker] PC Utilities.
H> Ara,
H> If you
have such "weird" problems the best you can do is the following:
H>
1. format drive / reinstall everything fresh (make at least 2
partitions
H> one for the system and one for the rest. I personally have
more partitions
H> for various things)
H> 2. buy Acronis True
Image Home ($49) - and make system partition backup
H> if you will do
disk images regularly you can turn off windows "system
H>
restore"
H> feature because full disk images give you much better
protection.
H> 3. backup your system partition before installation
of every software that
H> you don't know
H> so you can revert to
pre-installation state in case somethign goes wrong.
H> This will also
ensure that registry does not get cluttered with stuff that
H> did not
get uninstalled properly
H> Make scheduled backups (Acronis allows
to make scheduled disk images in the
H> background
H> while you
are working, you don't need to reboot nor anything like with some
H>
other tools)
H> and in the future you will be fully protected
H>
and will be able to restore your system in 10 minutes (that's about the
time
H> it takes on my computer).
H> Recent story:
H> I
have dual boot machine (allows to select whenever you want to boot
H>
into Win XP 32 bit PL or Win XP 64 bit EN)
H> when I installed Windows
Vista RC1 (for testing) it destroyed MBR (master
H> boot record) on my
disk
H> and I could not boot to anything but Vista. And as always
Acronis True
H> Image
H> rescued me - I simply restored the image,
MBR was restored too and
H> everything was back to normal.
H>
And big thanks to Yuki who first mentioned True Image on this
list.
H> Best regards,
H> Tomasz Janeczko
H>
amibroker.com
H> ----- Original Message -----
H> From: "Ara
Kaloustian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]com>
H> To:
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com>
H>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 10:13 AM
H> Subject: Re: [amibroker]
PC Utilities.
>> Yuki
>>
>> My problems are
"weird". ..
>>
>> For example,
>> 1. Some web sites
I can not log in. (I can log in with backup computer).
>> 2. Running
Interactive Brokers TWS, when I activate Book Trader, data does
>>
not come into Book Trader. I have to shut it off and re-activate.
This
>> actually happens with other programs also. Have not
established patern.
>> 3. On my Firewall / Antivirus / Spam Blocker /
Pest Controller, Spam
H> Blocker
>> and Pest Controller were
not running. They were also missing from the
H> start
>>
menu.
>> 4. Have problems running SecondCopy (my backup program).
Beleive this is
>> related the "read only"
issue.
>>
>> I was hacked last week through Skype!. An
"Unknown" user was registered
H> in
>> my PC, which I
removed.
>>
>> Virus scans show no
virus.
>>
>> The computer is new, so I do not do much HD
maintenance. Occasional
>> Defragment.
>>
>>
Unfortunatly have not got around to do a system
backup!!!
>>
>> Where is the system log. Never looked at
one.
>>
>> Tx
>> Ara
>>
>> -----
Original Message -----
>> From: "Yuki Taga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]att.ne.jp>
>>
To: "Ara Kaloustian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com>
>>
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 12:39 AM
>> Subject: Re:
[amibroker] PC Utilities.
>>
>>
>>> Hi
Ara,
>>>
>>> Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 3:31:19 PM,
you wrote:
>>>
>>> AK> I regularly run Registry
Machanic to keep PC running properly.
>>>
>>> AK>
Today I ran a trial version of "PC MightyMax, right after I
ran
>>> AK> Registry Mechanic. MightyMax found 241 Invalid
Registry Paths and 74
>>> Invalid
Shortcuts.
>>>
>>> AK> Anyone experienced with this
program??? The price tag also seems
>>> AK> unreasonably high
($120 / year licence)
>>>
>>> Ara ... generally
speaking, these programs are all worthless, and
>>> have the
potential to do much more harm than good. Running such a
>>>
program -- regularly -- is a prescription for trouble, IMNSHO.
These
>>> programs all follow different algorithms, and some are
very
>>> "thorough" (to the point that they wreck your system by
deleting
>>> things they shouldn't touch), and some are very lax
(meaning they
>>> don't really do
anything).
>>>
>>> Generally speaking, the registry
(especially on a 2K or XP system)
>>> does not need "fixing". The
only exception to that would be if you
>>> *knew* exactly what
needed fixing. The registry is a huge database,
>>> and it does
get cluttered with the remains of programs uninstalled,
>>> and
other useless data. It also only grows in size, unless it is
>>>
weeded and then compressed. But, again generally speaking, the
amount
>>> of clutter is almost always minuscule compared to the
size of the
>>> registry in the first place. Cutting the registry
even by 5 percent
>>> (a tough job, usually) is not going to
improve your performance very
>>> much. I doubt if you would even
be aware of it.
>>>
>>> But because these registry
"fixer" companies can scare or convince
>>> you into running a
trial version, which they *know* will turn up
>>> something
(unimportant, but probably a "large number" of unimportants
>>> --
i.e. seems large to you, but it's really *nothing*), they can
make
>>> a lot of money touting their useless products. You could
run 10 of
>>> these programs. None would agree with each other
regarding either
>>> number or specifics. They are a waste of
money.
>>>
>>> If invalid shortcuts or invalid
registry paths are the only things
>>> you have to worry about,
you probably have nothing to worry about,
>>> and definitely
should not go to the trouble of reinstalling. What I
>>> am more
concerned about, if I'm you, is "Am I compromised"? If
your
>>> machine is "owned", to use the phrase, *then* it's time
for a
>>> reformat and reinstall, maybe on a completely new
drive.
>>>
>>> What problems are you having other than
the read-only situation you
>>> mentioned in another
thread?
>>>
>>> Do you have a known-good
backup?
>>>
>>> Do you have an anti-virus program,
and/or an anti-spyware program?
>>>
>>> Do you run
them once in a while?
>>>
>>> Do you defragment your
drives once in a while (every 48 hours here on
>>> a rotating
basis)?
>>>
>>> Do you have a firewall? Which one? Is
it running?
>>>
>>> Have you run any hard drive
analysis software on your machine? Why
>>>
not?
>>>
>>> Memory check software? Why
not?
>>>
>>> What ... do your system logs tell you? Do
you read them daily?
>>> (There should hardly ever be either a
yellow or a red flag; basically
>>> they should be clean almost
all the time.)
>>>
>>> The only way to clear DRAM that
I know of is power off. That means
>>> computer, and modem, and
monitor (if it's flat panel). Have you shut
>>> *everything* down
completely, and waited five minutes (shouldn't take
>>> that long;
but that should do it for sure), and tried
again?
>>>
>>> Best,
>>>
>>>
Yuki
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
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