u/YourChildhood5762

I was just thinking about Chip Ganassi Racing. He just keeps on being successful while others fall by the wayside. Penske used to be the dominant team. Newman-Haas had a short but excellent run as did Andretti-Green. I remember the powerful old NASCAR teams a little better, Petty, Wood Brothers, Roush, Holman Moody, Gibbs, Childress.

None of these teams do as well as they used to. People got old and had other things draw them away from the day-to-day. They hired people to take their place who didn't have the magic. Even Ferrari had dry spells.

But CGR hasn't had many off years since their 1st championship in 1996 and have had 16 more besides. That's just a little more than every other year since they started in 1990. Unlike the others, the operation is not fading. Penske started twenty-three years before CGR and only has 8 more championships. We can expect Chip Ganassi to stay in the series for at least twenty more years but it's going to feel real strange without him.

In NASCAR, Rick Hendrick has the Ganassi role. I don't think I like the new paradigm. It makes motorsports seem less competitive than it actually is.

I hold several ETFs and I sometimes become interested in a specific company and want to see what ETF holds it so I can buy into that or maybe I already have it. There are many sites that will give you the top 10 or 25 holdings but I want ALL of them. For free.

ETFCHANNEL appears to list them all but doles them out ten at a time. I'm hoping to be able to download a list for quick reference.

ETF BREAKDOWN claims to list them all but when I asked it about my portfolio, it didn't list NVDA as part of TOPT (top 20 S&P), which is the #1 holding at 16.7%. I emailed them about it and got no response.

This isn't strictly human anatomy but I didn't know where to post.

All humans and some animals have a white area (the sclera) around their pupil. Some animals seem to be all pupil. I'm wondering why the difference. What is the function of that part of the eye?

I can understand that having no sclera could aid nocturnal vision by letting in more ambient light and that it also allows any animal to take in a larger view of the landscape. Why would we all not want those benefits?

The interweb tells me that "The sclera is the supporting wall for your eyeball. It maintains your eye’s shape and protects it from injuries". Obviously all types of eyeballs must have some sort of support structure so that description isn't helpful. Wikipedia suggest that the white exists to aid non-verbal communication, to indicate where someone is looking. So predators lack a sclera so their prey won't know where they're looking? Dogs have white around their pupil because they're domesticated and need to communicate with humans?

Windows 11, personal use, obsolete knowledge of tech

Backup to and from local HDD hard drives, not a RAID array, not the cloud

I used Acronis backup software from 2015 to 2018 and it worked well for me because of the flexibility of being able to schedule multiple disks and the ability to run weekly full and daily incremental backups. I intended to go back to the current version of the software because it is somewhat familiar to me. But am confused about the backup options. Incremental backups in particular. The documentation compares methods for a file in which some pages are added, deleted or modified but I'm concerned with files that are completely overhauled during the course of a week.

This is my desired plan:

TWO WEEKLY BACKUPS, EXECUTED ON SEPARATE DAYS

backup1: three disks, full backups (C: 101GB of 464GB + E: 73GB of 1.81TB + F: 87GB of 1.81TB to drive A: 7.27TB). The set takes about 4.5 hours so it can be scheduled anytime with minimal impact to productivity.

backup2: one disk, full backup (G: 2.1TB of 3.63TB to drive B: 7.27TB). This disk takes about 11 hours, so it must be done after 10pm and verification takes several more hours and must be scheduled for the next night at 10pm.

DAILY BACKUP OF ALL FOUR OF THE DISKS REFERENCED ABOVE

Daily incremental backup of the four disks referenced above. If the file has changed since the last full backup, I want the specific version of files in their entirety that were in use on the day of the incremental backup. If those files change the next day, I want that specific version in its entirety.

It appears that Acronis' current INCREMENTAL option would only give me a partial copy of each file. If, several weeks later, I wanted to recover a file that had several changes during the week across unknown dates, with some pages being completely revised, I'd have to patch it together from several files rather than recovering all six files from that week and choosing the one that was precisely what I wanted. Since I have experienced corruption in Acronis files, files that validated correctly immediately after backup, I am not happy that one bad backup could halt a recovery string.

Their DIFFERENTIAL option is more in line with what I seek, but it appears that it overwrites the entire file each time it changes. So if I did a FULL backup on Monday and the file changed on Tuesday and Thursday, I would only be able to recover the Thursday file. My desire would be to have one full backup a week for each disk and six daily incrementals for each disk. Then to repeat the process until the backup disks have filled up, run cleanup, and begin again.

What I would ideally want to have, and what I believe I had before, were three individual backups. Two weekly full backups and a daily that looked only at file modification dates and didn't care when the full backup was done or what the file looked like on any previous backup. I'm willing to pay for software, assuming I can get in for less than $75 a year.