Backing up computer files is essential for firms interested in preventing business interruption or failure during or after power outages, natural disasters, hardware failures or other events.

Backups once consisted of saving data on magnetic tapes, but now, partial backups are the norm, which input changes between the last full backup and the state of files when outages occur....

...Other techniques often include mirroring and data reduction backup, which reduces file sizes.

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