[geeks] windows backup software

Mouse mouse at Rodents-Montreal.ORG
Thu Mar 21 17:11:34 CDT 2013


> Its 2013 and I find it amazing how many backup programs are stuck
> with 80s level interfaces, no support for multiple cores,

What possible use could multiple cores be?  Unless it's truly
spectacularly badly designed, it will be I/O bound anyway, no?

(No, I have no specific comments; if I need to back up a Windows
machine - doesn't happen often - I move the disk to a machine with a
real OS and use dd or moral equivalent to make an exact image.)

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