[geeks] windows backup software

[Phil Stracchino]

On 03/21/13 18:11, Mouse wrote:
>> 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?

Well, example:  thread 1 actually streams file data to the backup
destination, while threads 2-n scan distinct physical volumes to
determine which files thread 1 should copy.


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