Re: A new graphic user interface
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- Subject: [mg111729] Re: A new graphic user interface
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 04:49:33 -0400 (EDT)
The main issues, from my point of view are simply to ensure: (1) if Mathematica crashes, you only lose the past so-many minutes work; and (2) you can readily retrieve earlier versions of a notebook; (3) and take care of all this directly from within Mathematica. Of course one uses other backup tools to back up whole folders, partitions, or drives. On 8/10/2010 3:55 AM, David Bailey wrote: > On 09/08/10 10:12, David Park wrote: >> In addition to the weekly full system backup on the PC backup drive, and a >> monthly backup to DVD of all my important files, I also have a short term >> CurrentBackup folder on my desktop. I make quick copies into there from the >> home folder for current notebooks that I've been doing a lot of work on. >> It's a simple low-tech method. >> > I like low tech backup methods too - you know exactly what is going on. > I wrote a small C program to copy a file to a backup folder, appending a > number to the file name so that multiple copies of the same file can be > stored. > > For my main backup, I have found a splendid product with the curious > name "EASEOUS TODO BACKUP". This copies and compresses a whole partition > to another drive - typically an add on drive. The resulting file can be > used to restore the entire machine, or it can be "mounted" so that it > appears as another read-only drive. Remarkably this software is free - > just download it! > > I don't think a backup mechanism built in to Mathematica would be useful > - because I always have other files outside Mathematica, that I like to > save at the same time. > > David Bailey > http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk > -- Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu Mathematics & Statistics Dept. Lederle Graduate Research Tower phone 413 549-1020 (H) University of Massachusetts 413 545-2859 (W) 710 North Pleasant Street fax 413 545-1801 Amherst, MA 01003-9305