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Old 05-03-2015, 11:34 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by Katsunami View Post
Maybe I should have said "accessible from any computer" Even if your drives are EXT3, it's simple enough to boot the computer using a live Linux distro and get at your files that way.

What I despise is a 'backup' for which you need to have the original backup program installed to read and recover it. That's useless. A good backup should not put the files into a proprietary backup format.
Couldn't agree more on all counts.

Happily, hardlinked file copies make an excellent, open, future-proof backup.
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