Blog Post #8, In Which I List Several Backup Tools

[magikos]

Last time, i talked about the importance of backups. Today, i will survey some backup tools.
tar

The venerable UNIX utility. "tar" stands for "Tape ARchive". My understanding is that, in the old days, you would tar up your files every night and write the archive to a magnetic tape drive-tape being one of the most reliable storage methods (if stored

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[magikos]

Yeah, i'd like to do something like that-run a backup server that i can sync to without worriying about it. USB hard drives are great but it's difficult to share one between two computers.

[magikos]

> Serveral
> entremely
> Lessions
> survied

Man, maybe i should learn how to spell.