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A nuke is a remote possibility, but house fire and
flooding, or theft are real ones. I was not saying you should not use
external hard drives. In fact I use it to store backup images etc.
However, if your laptop bag is stolen with your
external hard drive in it; or the house with 10 hard drives catches fire, you
may be out of luck. For very important stuff, such as your profitable trading
systems, the source code for your sharewares, etc, backing them up somewhere
online, be it mozy or you gmail account (both have 2GB from free), will bring
you another level of peace of mind. Or if you don't like the online idea, just
don't keep all your eggs in one basket, bring a backup drive/CD/DVD to your work
location or a bank deposit box, or a friend's house periodically.
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Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:20
PM
Subject: RE: [amibroker] PC
Utilities.
Mark,
If where your back up
lies is nuked and you are not then you are out of
luck
External HDs are so
cheap now
About $179 for 250gb
USB2.0 and firewire connect
Or
500gb Seagate eSata
HD ($ 359) external this is fast for back ups and both come with back up
software to copy your computers HD exact down to the Registry ( this
runs on PCI host adapter card included)
Mark
From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com] On Behalf Of Mark H
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2006 1:01
PM
To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]ps.com
Subject: Re: [amibroker] PC
Utilities.
Talking about "The Big One", no
one has mention online backup. These days you can pay $5 a month to get 30GB
remote space to back up your stuff online.
I use Mozy remote back service and
it was very easy to set up. They also provide 2GB space for free. If my city
is nuked tomorrow and I happen to be out of town, I still have all my trading
systems and family photos, and can start to make a living in no time, provided
that the markets are still open after the nuke.
----- Original Message -----
Sent:
Wednesday, October 25, 2006 9:54 AM
Subject: Re:
[amibroker] PC Utilities.
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>
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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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note that this group is for discussion between users
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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