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How Do You Back Up Your Computer?

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How do you back up your computer?

 

What do you back up from your computer?

 

so much of today's trading is evolved around the computer,

it is the center piece of trading.

 

 

I only do day trades, so my data requirement is very small. I do not back up my data at all.

I only do monthly back up of my indicators, because I do periodic refinement to my indicators. (change a color here, modify a line there, etc.,)

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Hi Tams,

 

It's been a while since I posted here on this forum.

 

If you need to back up data there are two ways of doing this one way is using an external USB hard-drive. The problem with these is redundancy.

 

Another method which I use myself is you either use an old box with some hard-drives on it or a purchase a new one and install FreeNas its based on Linux and its great. If you want redundancy just add multiple hard drives to the machine. I've got four here 2 TB in a RAID 5 configuration, I also have an UPS machine just in case there are power failures.

 

Here is a link to the open source site.

 

FreeNAS 8 | Storage For Open Source

 

Hope this helps.

 

Simon

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I run disc imaging software on my trading computer which runs backup to an external SSD every other day. I keep tax and account records, and a trade journal with screen prints on my trading computer. Like you, I could probably get by with monthly backups, but disc space is cheap and I don't have much data.

 

My MacBook is used for everything else, and I don't run backups... anything I want to keep gets saved to a flash drive that is on my key chain.

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At a minimum I would suggest using at least two SDHC "memory" cards as a cheap backup medium. They usually come with a USB card reader for computers that do not have a card reader built-in. They're commonly found at your local office supply stores.

 

I use Google Chrome sync'ing and my Gmail/Google Account to "backup" my bookmarks. Any docs or pdfs are stored in Google Docs and not backed up locally. They're not critical though.

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weekly portable harddrive backup for data files - this way if the net goes down I still have records.

regular save the latest incarnations of any spreadsheets/WIP/Word/bookmarks I might be working on to dropbox as well.....this way I can still generally plug and play

Emails - backup by hosting providers - up to a certain limit at least.

I used to have two computers automatically backing each other up, now I work from a single laptop.

 

There could be better ways to do it I am sure, but in a perverse sort of way, if all the junk goes due to a catastrophic failure its not a bad thing - so long as I have what I need.

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I use a variety of tools to backup my files. I have an external hard drive that I try to back up monthly. I also have a lot of USB flash drives that I use for work, personal, etc. I also use iCloud. Previous to that I used Carbonite. It is a very reliable website. There are many similar to it though. I think it is smart to have your files backed up in more than one place in case something were to happen. I like the idea of having them backed up wireless-ly via the internet as well as a hard copy.

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How do you back up your computer?

 

What do you back up from your computer?

 

so much of today's trading is evolved around the computer,

it is the center piece of trading.

 

 

I only do day trades, so my data requirement is very small. I do not back up my data at all.

I only do monthly back up of my indicators, because I do periodic refinement to my indicators. (change a color here, modify a line there, etc.,)

 

 

 

 

Copy and paste this link to your browser, if you still have problem let me know I will email the link

 

Best Backup Ideas | EZ Trading Computers

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Backblaze -- automated, never have to think about it, run it every night while I'm asleep, unlimited space, and $50 per year. Data stored non-locally. Can't beat it.

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I'd recommend Acronis or Macrium Reflect to generate disk images that you can quickly rebuild a dead system from as step one.

 

And on a weekly or more frequent basis Cobian Backup to incrementally backup key files.

 

I store to both an offsite disk and another local networked computer.

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I clone my hard drive to a 2nd hard drive. Many programs can do the cloning operation without a problem. Some are even free such as Macrium Reflect but all work OK.

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