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File Manager and Backup Tools

Some Backup Tools
I have used various backup tools over several decades, ranging from great to terrible. A tool that says files have been successfully backed up, but has actually copied nothing, can cause a great deal of heartache when a restoration is needed. (Been there, done that, using Iomega Tools that came with my Zip [...]

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Disk Partitions, Disk Images, and Backups

Progress in computer hardware and software is often a leap-frog process, and this affects how users can do things.
In the early 1980s, IBM R&D provided me a model 1 Personal Computer (actually the 5150), which came with a mere 64Kb RAM and two 360Kb floppy drives, plus IBM/MS DOS 1.0. Looking back, that was pretty [...]

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