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		arjie on Feb 10, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Backing up a Linux system to Usenet Amusingly, there's alt.binaries.backup https://www.binsearch.info/browse.php?server=2&bg=alt.binari.... I found out about its existence through the following two earlier threads regarding this approach: https://newsgroupdirect.com/blog/2012/04/07/usenet-for-file-... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/non-scalable-anti-social-back... Does anyone know what the deal with alt.binaries.backup is? Why would anyone mirror?

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