Matthew MacDonald
1 min readFeb 19, 2020

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I do occasional “out of stream” backups to other media, but I’ve yet to back up a backup!

Making whole “image” backups adds some neat features, like easy encryption & compression. But I was burned many years ago when a bad sector prevented me from accessing any part of a backup image, and ever since I’ve preferred backing up individual files, even though I logically know that the formats of today (VHD) are probably much more robust.

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Matthew MacDonald
Matthew MacDonald

Written by Matthew MacDonald

Teacher, coder, long-ago Microsoft MVP. Author of heavy books. Join Young Coder for a creative take on science and technology. Queries: matthew@prosetech.com

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