http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2009\/TECH\/11\/04\/cloud.computing.hunt\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\nI’ve been spending my evenings trying to straighten out 20 years of backup files—from two people who are pretty careful about backing up. I couldn’t transfer into the dos system the things I created on the typewriter (Gate of Ivrel, Hunter of Worlds, Brothers of Earth, not even Downbelow Station and Merchanter’s Luck, which were on a cellwriter)..not the things I wrote on an Atari—but absolutely everything after that. I have, for instance, the folders invadera, invaderb, invaderc, and so on down the whole alphabet, full of files that need sorting and comparing. Quel job! Fortunately I found a good software, and I have a good bent for library work, so it’s going pretty rapidly. The fact we have more than 20 whole-disk backups in addition to these—is going to be brain-fryingly difficult to keep straight, but we’re getting there. If you have a similar mess in your own computer files, there’s a nice program called easyduplicatefinder that is friendly, fast, and accurate.\u00a0 Using it on a terabyte drive makes the whole task a little less crazy: we loaded ALL our backup disks onto the terabyte drive, and this program is capable of finding duplicates even in endless\u00a0sub-sub-subdirectories. FYI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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