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3 unusual facts about Backup


Arcada Software

Conner Software owned the Backup Exec brand of backup software, while Quest owned the source code behind Symantec Corporation’s Norton Backup for the DOS, Windows and Macintosh computing platforms of the time.

Binary backup

A Backup consisting of exact, byte-level copies of the original data.

Distributed file system for cloud

There are different ways affecting data's integrity either from a malicious event or from administration errors (i.e backup and restore, data migration, changing memberships in P2P systems).


1998 San Francisco 49ers season

Regular starter Drew Bledsoe was out for the year with a broken throwing hand so backup Scott Zolak took over.

2006 Michigan State vs. Northwestern football game

Michigan State's chances of completing the comeback appeared to be finished early in the fourth quarter when backup quarterback Brian Hoyer had his 6th pass of the drive intercepted by Northwestern a minute in.

2007 Stanford vs. USC football game

To compound the situation, Stanford's starting quarterback T. C. Ostrander had suffered a seizure the previous week and backup quarterback Tavita Pritchard had never started a game and had only ever thrown three passes.

Amariah Farrow

In 2007, Farrow was made a backup because of the departure of Bobby Singh to the Calgary Stampeders.

Bernardo Romeo

In the following season, he was only a backup or third-string, ending up playing in as much games in the league and in the UEFA Cup, netting against Odense Boldklub in a 3–1 home win with his team eventually reaching the last-four in the latter competition.

Damon Huard

Huard was released by the Chiefs on February 24, 2009, roughly a week before Pioli traded for Matt Cassel, a Patriots backup who replaced an injured Brady in 2008, to be the Chiefs' starter.

Danny Kanell

Seven games into the season, starting quarterback Jake Plummer and backup quarterback Steve Beuerlein suffered with foot and hand injuries, respectively.

Daryl Dickey

For most of his college career, Dickey was a backup to star quarterbacks Alan Cockrell and Tony Robinson.

Data Processing Iran Co.

The company also offers a series of Cloud services,Internet-related services, namely dedicated servers; colocation services; Web hosting services, such as shared hosting, shared mail, DNS recording, and domain registration services; and managed services, including network services, security solutions, managed application services, storage and backup solutions, monitoring and reporting, and professional services.

Evanílson Aparecido Ferreira

Evanílson gained 13 caps for Brazil in one year, playing in two games at the 1999 Copa América as Cafu's backup, with the national team winning the tournament in Paraguay.

Fostex Foundation 2000

On the back of the system, a variety of connectivity options were available such as analog audio, coaxial/XLR/toslink optical connectors for input and output, SCSI (for external hard drives or tape backup units), various sync sources (video/SMPTE/etc), MIDI, and RS-422 ports for remote controlling the Foundation 2000 from other devices, or using the it to control other devices.

Geng Xiaofeng

Geng Xiaofeng joined the Shandong Luneng youth team at the age of fourteen and would go on to join the Shandong Luneng's first team squad when the manager Ljubiša Tumbaković promoted him to act as backup for Li Leilei and then later for Yang Cheng.

Goodnight Oslo

Colin Meloy of The Decemberists provided one of the backup vocals in "Saturday Groovers", as Mr. Hitchcock provided guitar for a track on the Decemberists' album The Hazards of Love.

Gunsmoke Western

Issue #35 (June 1956) introduced the backup feature "Wyatt Earp", starring a version of the real-life lawman, for two issues before back-up features were dropped in favor of Kid Colt plus standalone stories.

Guy Benjamin

He was reunited with Bill Walsh when he joined the San Francisco 49ers in 1981, where he earned a Super Bowl ring as Joe Montana's backup in Super Bowl XVI.

Here at the Mayflower

American Idol vocal coach Debra Byrd, Manilow's longtime backup singer, makes an uncredited appearance on "Say Goodbye" and "I Don't Wanna Know" on this release only.

History of rail transport in the Netherlands

On September 20 a train pulled by the locomotives De Arend (and De Snelheid as a backup) left Amsterdam, arriving in a (then) recordbreaking 30 minutes later in Haarlem.

Hunt Sales

Hunt played and sang backup vocals on the second Paris LP, Big Towne, 2061.

Jason Falkner

Falkner also collaborated as a songwriter, producer, instrumentalist and backup vocalist with singer-songwriter Brendan Benson on Benson's first two albums, One Mississippi (1996) and Lapalco (2002).

Kelly Keeling

In those years, he toured also with Erik Norlander, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Received gold and platinum album awards from TSO, toured with Wayne Morrissons Rock4Xmas, featuring Badfinger member Joey Molland On this tour was Backup Singer for Eddie Money and did his solo career retrospective set The Kelly Keeling Show with band mates Ethan Brosh Alex Pierce and Dave Vandiggitty.

Kenny Irons

Irons entered the season as the backup running back after criticism that he could not pick up blocks well enough to function as a complete running back in Al Borges's complex offensive scheme.

Kevin Newsome

He took part in winter conditioning and spring practice before the 2009 season began, in an attempt to become the top backup to starter Daryll Clark.

Koy Detmer

Detmer was released after the Eagles signed former Eagle A. J. Feeley as their backup and moved punter Dirk Johnson into the role of kick holder.

La Llamada

It was written by Selena y Los Dinos backup singer Pete Astudillo and Selena's brother, principal record producer and songwriter A.B. Quintanilla III.

Marcus Demps

In 2003, Demps started the season as a backup, but was promoted to the starting lineup when mononucleosis sidelined then starter Josh Dean.

Markus Weissenberger

In the Eintracht squad he was, in the offensive midfield, often only a backup for Alexander Meier and predominantly gets few short time appearances.

Marlan

Marlan Coughtry (born 1934), former backup infielder in Major League Baseball

Mold prevention

Manual methods such as HEPA filtered vacuuming serve as a backup to eliminating mold via environmental control.

Motorola Homesight

The latter may be mitigated by the use of a UPS for the computer and some combination of backup power sources, such as diesel generator, solar panels, a wind turbine or other off-the-grid energy sources.

Natalie Avellino

In 2004 she fell out with Netball Australia and was drafted to New Zealand playing for the Invercargill-based Southern Sting in the National Bank Cup, a team which won seven out of ten of the National Bank Cup titles (1999–2004, 2007) as a backup shooter for Donna Wilkins and Tania Dalton who later got injured.

Peter June Simon

In his first stint with the tricolors, PJ Simon scored 14 points to backup Reynel Hugnatan as the MBA All-Stars opened its 25th William Jones Cup campaign on a high note, tripping the much taller Russian club Lokomotive Novosibirsk, 78-68, at the Taipei Physical Education College Gym.

Pinch Thomas

Chester David Thomas (January 24, 1888 – December 24, 1953) was a backup catcher in Major League Baseball who played from 1912 through 1921 for the Boston Red Sox (1912–17) and Cleveland Indians (1918–21).

Rémi Garde

Garde became known for his tidy and reliable performances as backup for Vieira or Emmanuel Petit; he played a total of 45 matches over three seasons for Arsenal, and was a member of the Double-winning side of 1997–98, making 10 league appearances that season meaning he just about qualified for a Premier League winners' medal.

Renee Garcia

She sang backup with Amy Grant on the Straight Ahead, Unguarded, and Heart in Motion tours and released two solo albums in the late 1980s.

Roberto Petagine

After a productive spring, he made the major league team as a backup to Richie Sexson.

Sammy Garza

He spent the next season splitting the quarterback duties of the Ottawa Rough Riders with Danny Barrett and was David Archer's backup in 1996.

Sharkey McEwen

He is the lead guitarist for the group Gandalf Murphy and the Slambovian Circus of Dreams, aka The Grand Slambovians, where he also plays mandolin and provides backup vocals.

Shem von Schroeck

Through Kenny Loggins, he knew Vicki Randle, a regular vocalist on The Tonight Show, who would frequently invite Schroeck to join the band as a backup vocalist.

Spokane, Portland and Seattle 700

700 was delivered on June 21, 1938, joining the 702 pulling overnight passenger trains between Spokane and Vancouver, Washington, along the north shore of the Columbia River, with the 701 providing backup and pulling freight.

Stephen Gostkowski

Though the Patriots hired Todd Sauerbrun to punt, holding duties were given to the Patriots' backup quarterback Matt Cassel (which led to one regular-season kick that, while good, made two bizarre turns in mid-air).

Stoney Case

In 2000, Case signed with the Detroit Lions as the primary backup to quarterback Charlie Batch.

The Spill Canvas

Anthony Green sang backup vocals on the song "Bleed, Everyone's Doing It", and Andrew McMahon played keyboards in the re-recorded version of the song "Saved", a song originally recorded for the soundtrack of the motion picture, Superman Returns.

Tod Rockwell

Rockwell was a backup quarterback for Michigan at the start of the 1923 season but got the starting quarterback job after Irwin Uteritz broke his ankle in a game against the Quantico Marines.

Tommy Puett

In 1990 Puett recorded the pop album Life Goes On released by Scotti Brothers Records, which included his younger sister, Devyn Puett, in backup vocals.

Valentina Ponomaryova

Tereshkova's backup was Irina Solovyova, with Ponomaryova in a supporting 'second back-up' role.

Wally Gabler

As a senior in 1965, Gabler began the season as a backup to Dick Vidmer.

Weather Underground

Rumors also circulated that the funds were donated by an internationally known female folk singer in Los Angeles or by Elephant's Memory, which was John Lennon's backup band in New York City and was a factor with the attempted deportation of Lennon, who had donated bail money for radical groups.

When Forever Comes Crashing

Steve Austin of Today Is the Day, along with Converge, produced the album and also provided backup vocals on the track "The Lowest Common Denominator".

William D. Drake

The other band members were the then-current Cardiacs drummer Dominic Luckman and two other former Cardiacs members (keyboard player and co-singer Mark Cawthra and bass player Jon Bastable (who'd been a backup Cardiac during Cawthra's tenure in the band).


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