> >The nice thing about using a hard drive as backup media is that >incremental backups are consolidated (by copying new/newer files) into a >directory tree that is current and complete. Copying can be with or >without "replicating deletions" so that old stuff can be preserved in the >backup. The backup can be readily tested, since the files appear on an >ordinary hard drive. And it is quick to find and restore a single file or >two.
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