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[Programming Help] - Back Up and Restore for Sierra Charts?
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| [2018-06-03 11:21:59] |
| Michael W - Posts: 20 |
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Hello, First off, I have carefully considered where to post this and I feel it important to put before your engineers since it is a feature for your program. It is not an urgent need, but I feel it could be a very helpful feature for the reasons I have stated. I love the power and flexibility of Sierra Charts. I wonder if some have made this request before, but I wanted to ask you if it would be possible to build a back up and restore utility for Sierra Charts? Many of us daytraders trade the desktop, and upon travelling want to reproduce everything and load it into our laptops for trading on the road. Yes I have read your notes on how to do that, but I am just saying it is pretty involved and takes quite a while and there are files to pick and choose including folders. I am somewhat technical so this is not really a problem for me, it is just time consuming. I think for many, it might be considered kind of challenging. Would it be possible to put together a routine and just add it to Tools, title it Back Up Sierra Charts and then Restore Sierra Charts? Not sure how involved this would be but I am thinking it might not take up too much development time. Just a suggestion that I believe would be very beneficial to your customers. Thanks for your time. |
| [2018-06-03 21:48:23] |
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Really you just need to use this simple method here: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=doc/helpdetails15.html#SimpleTransferOfSierraChartInstallationToAnotherFolder Although that page has a lot of various steps and different sections, essentially they are really mostly the same and just some of them go into more detail. Essentially copying Sierra Chart is point-blank simple. There really is no reason for us to do anything more. Sierra Chart Support - Engineering Level Your definitive source for support. Other responses are from users. Try to keep your questions brief and to the point. Be aware of support policy: https://www.sierrachart.com/index.php?l=PostingInformation.php#GeneralInformation For the most reliable, advanced, and zero cost futures order routing, *change* to the Teton service: Sierra Chart Teton Futures Order Routing |
| [2018-07-18 22:14:14] |
| bradh - Posts: 854 |
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Once you have the installations copied, the problem of keeping the two systems in sync can be resolved with the tool called SyncToy. You can Google it. You set up both computers on your network and map a network drive to your Data folder on the other machine. Then you create a pair that is the two data folders, one local and the other one. SyncToy has options to copy over any new files or new versions of existing files, and you can do it one way or both ways. You can avoid copying the large DLY and SCID files with the exclude option. You should only need the files with the extensions CHT, SCSS, DLL, StudyCollection, and TWConfig. The DLLs won't copy if Sierra Chart is running, so you may want to close the app and copy those once, then exclude them from regular updates.
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