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Re: question Re: windows 10

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There are three main means of 'backup' on Unix - ANY flavour: tar, cpio, and dd

DD is the most robust program of ANY operating system in cloning a disk drive. Tar is the easiest (Tape ARchive) and works disk to disk, disk to floppy, disk to tape, etc. There are various wrappers to make tar easier to extract/retrieve individual files from an archive. DD is the fastest, cpio the slowest and more of bitch to use than the other two.




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Re: question Re: windows 10
By: Zimbler0
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Thu, 14 Nov 24 4:42 AM
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Micro > I wonder if it would be much improvement to get Apple?

I dunno about Apple . . .
But there is a thing called 'Linux'. It works a lot like Windoze but it isn't. Once on the Internet there is a button one can push which brings up this software library where a LOT of different games and utility programs and educational programs can be downloaded free.

Linux also has 'Open Office' which has programs which do most of what miscrosnot office does.

Backup and Restore programs that work so well under Windoze do not work at all under Linux.

And, last time I was looking at it, One needed to find the appropriate backup program for the particular flavor and variant of Linux being ran.

http://www.linuxmint.com/download.php

This link should take one to a site where some Linux can be downloaded.

Lastly, I would recommend downloading a disk image, burning it to a disk. Then swapping out the hard drive for a new one before installing - to the new drive.

Zim.


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