The backup application starts automatically, searching and backing up data without requiring any user interaction.

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That made a 100-megabyte Zip disk a useful tool for backing up data and sharing files with other people.

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Instead of backing up data to an external hard drive, a chore as popular in our home as taking out the trash, we staked out disk space on each machine and opened it to the other computers on the home front.

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It competes with IBM, EMC, NetApp, Hewlett-Packard and Hitachi Data Systems in the storage hardware market by selling products like flash drives, magneto-optical drives, magnetic tape drives and compact drives that are used for backing up data on servers.

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An enormous 1TB(1) hard drive provides generous space to store content and an optical drive is included for backing up valuable data.

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These applications require both servers, on which they are hosted, and storage hardware, for backing up of the data.

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The convenience of a SuperMulti optical drive is provided for backing up favorite photos and data.

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Tape is ideal for backing up huge libraries of data -- its fast, cheap and capacious.

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