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Protect Data with TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite

Conventional data backup solutions often don’t provide enough features of capabilities to ensure that your data is always kept safe in the event that the worst happens. In fact, although most people do recognize the importance of backing up their personal files, few use a proper, purpose-built data backup suite. Many people manually back up their files simply by copying them to an external drive or uploading them to a cloud storage facility such as OneDrive. Nonetheless, there’s no way of guaranteeing that everything is backed up if you’re purely relying on the limited manual solution. After all, there is a good chance that not all of the important files on your computer are actually located in the most obvious of places, such as the user account documents folder.

Exhaustive Data Backup Using Disk Imaging Technology

TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite uses the disk imaging method to make certain that absolutely everything stored on your computer is backed up into a single drive image. In other words, backups created by this software include a byte-by-byte copy of all data on your hard drive to include things like operating systems, programs, personal files and even hidden but important data you probably didn’t even know was there. The program provides a quick and easy way to back up data and save it in the form of a single hard disk image to an external hard drive or other storage device. You can also use the included MakeDisk wizard to create a bootable recovery disk to use even in the event that your computer completely fails to start due to an unworkable operating system.

Safely Continue Using Your Computer while Backups Are in Progress

Perhaps the only drawback of disk imaging and backup software is that it can take a lot of time to back up an entire hard disk, particularly when you have hundreds of gigabytes of data. However, with TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite, you can safely continue using your computer, since the software will lock your backup to a specific point in time. The disk imaging software itself runs under Windows itself, although you can back up and restore any data, including partitions that are running DOS, Linux and those encrypted by third-party software. Drive images produced by TeraByte are compatible with any version of the program with the same major version number (such as 3.x etc.)

The latest edition of TeraByte Drive Image Backup and Restore Suite includes some welcome changes, including various additional commands for advanced users. Version 3.01 further refined the user interface, provided an update for improved compatibility with the new Anniversary Edition of Windows 10 and introduced some more enhancements, updates and bug fixes.

The software is available with a flexible licensing and there is also a special bundle price available to those who also want to take advantage of some of the other powerful TeraByte products. Versions for DOS and Linux are also available. Those who purchased version 2.x of the software at any time during 2016 will also be eligible for a free upgrade to version 3.0. Learn more at http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/image-for-windows.htm

Think of Our Physical Spaces Like Our Digital Spaces

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Exploring the ways in which online spaces can be made to mimic offline spaces in order to keep people safe. Online spaces can reflect real cities in many ways. There is ugliness that no one will treat, there is anger that people will take out on each other, among other things.

In order to keep people safe, we must think of our physical spaces like our digital spaces. In doing so the digital spaces we live in can become more constructive and friendly.

Being on social media can feel a bit like living in a new kind of city. It’s the greatest city in the world. Millions of people can do things their parents never dreamed of. They can live together, play together, learn together. The city is a marvel.

But it’s also rotten. Raw sewage runs in the streets. Every once in a while, a mass frenzy takes hold. Citizen denounces citizen. Relationships are irrevocably broken.

My job used to be to protect the city. I was a member of the Facebook Civic Integrity team. My coworkers and I researched and fixed integrity problems—abuses of the platform to spread hoaxes, hate speech, harassment, calls to violence, and so on. Over time, we became experts, thanks to all the people, hours, and data thrown at the problem. As in any community of experts, we all had at least slightly different ways of looking at the problem. For my part, I started to think like an urban planner. The city needs to be designed correctly from the beginning. It needs neighborhoods that are built so that people, societies, and democracies can thrive.

This is a different approach, one that is emerging in companies across the social media landscape: integrity design. Integrity workers like me try to defend a system from attackers who have found and learned to abuse bugs or loopholes in its rules or design. Our job is to systematically stop the online harms that users inflict on each other. We don’t (often) get into the muck of trying to make decisions about any specific post or person. Instead, we think about incentives, information ecosystems, and systems in general. Social media companies need to prioritize integrity design over content moderation, and the public needs to hold them accountable about whether they do so.

First, let’s take a step back: if social media is a new city, why is it so hard to govern? Why don’t real cities see millions of citizens fall into cults in a manner of months? How can they have conferences without (Gamergate-scale) harassment, or clubs that don’t turn people into propaganda-spewing automatons? Why don’t they have waves of Nazi recruitment? What does the physical city have that the virtual one doesn’t?