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Do you back up your Norgate data?

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Newt

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Is there any reason to backup Norgate data every month when prompted?

I subscribe to Norgate's excellent Premium Data for the ASX to feed Amibroker. A few times a year I encounter a corruption for stocks starting with the same letter of the alphabet. Recovery is simple and relatively quick - download their history install tool then run the update application. Amibroker keeps all its notations etc in its directory.

It seems to me a reinstall would be easy than restoring a backup, so is there any reason to do one?
 
Newt said:
Is there any reason to backup Norgate data every month when prompted?

I subscribe to Norgate's excellent Premium Data for the ASX to feed Amibroker. A few times a year I encounter a corruption for stocks starting with the same letter of the alphabet. Recovery is simple and relatively quick - download their history install tool then run the update application. Amibroker keeps all its notations etc in its directory.

It seems to me a reinstall would be easy than restoring a backup, so is there any reason to do one?
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I'm running the same setup as you and I often wonder whether I should be clicking on the backup prompt when it appears in the Norgate download utility--I never click on the backup prompt.

Rightly or wrongly, I elect not to click on the backup prompt because I figure I am doing an overall system backup up of my hard drive everyday and so if I have any problem recovering my Norgate data I can just recover it from my system backup, which is a relatively easy task. Not sure this is the right approach, but would love to hear what others do.
 
Thanks MA. The more I think about it, it doesn't make sense to backup the Trading Data directory alone. The really valuable info for me is buried in the Amibroker directory - all my indicators, chart notations, etc.

The history directory I could download and reinstall from scratch in 5mins. I guess even a few years ago before broadband reliable fast downloads weren't guaranteed though.
 
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