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Practice of protecting important data by storing duplicate files on a different location on the same drive, on different drives, diskettes, media, computer, and/or site. Some application programs allow automatic duplication of files. See also data mirroring and disk mirroring.
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file backup is in the Computer Hardware, Software, & Security and Information Science & Technology subjects.
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