XPost: alt.comp.freeware, comp.os.ms-windows.misc   
   From: the.guy.with.the.sideburns@lasfs.info   
      
   On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 21:03:04 +0100, Alan Ralph wrote:   
      
   > Well, I'm glad that message is getting out. It baffles me that PC makers   
   > are quick to flog online backup solutions with new PCs that may or may   
   > not be effective if the customer doesn't have a fast broadband   
   > connection, but don't think to include an external hard disk as part of   
   > a system package.   
      
   Agreed.  Everybody should make regular backups to media that they   
   control.  I have a 16GB flash drive that I reformatted to ext4 and use   
   for backing up my Linux box.  Currently, it has 30.5GB of data and 8.3GB   
   of freespace.  (No, that's not a typo; my backup software uses symbolic   
   links to back up files that haven't changed, and you can't do that on a   
   FAT or VFAT file system although I think you can on NTFS.)   
      
   --   
   Joe Zeff -- The Guy With The Sideburns:   
   http://www.zeff.us http://www.lasfs.info   
   Sometimes, if you wanted to go to the ball,   
   you had to be your own fairy godmother.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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