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Simple but efficient backups

Backups are perennially on my To-do list. Just having them would be good, but more than that I want to automate their creation and maintenance. My problem, of course, is I prefer to make my own system for doing this … Continue reading

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Using the NTFS journal for backups

This post (in draft for almost 18 months) describes my amateur understanding of an interesting and useful NTFS feature, the USN Journal, and shows how I’m using it as part of a simple backup program in Python. It also gives … Continue reading

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