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backup copy

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backup copy

A disk, tape or other machine readable copy of a data or program file. Making backup copies is a discipline most computer users learn the hard way-- after months of work is lost. See backup and LAN free backup.



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Simply making a backup copy of these data does not ensure that sufficient metadata has been captured to understand the environment in which the data was created, guard against failure of the storage mechanism, allow for geographic distribution, or solve the problem of file format migration over time.
Also, collected data was stored as a backup copy in the researcher's PASS of this case study at the Pennsylvania State University.
99) provides a fine collection of hard science fiction articles, from the complicated logic of a human backup copy gone awry to the paradox of a designed society determined not to be led by design.
 
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