At Deloitte, the consulting firm, employees can get a backup care worker if an aging parent or grandparent needs help.

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Felton was considered an option as a veteran backup to Lin if the Knicks didn't get Steve Nash or Kidd.

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Long story short, the upgrade runs into complications, data is lost, and without a backup to revert to, untold thousands of Sidekick users get shafted in an epic way rarely seen in an age of well-defined, well-understood IT strategies.

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It would be a backup role like he's been doing, and it would be to get prepared for the future.

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The estimate for this backup was a little over one day, though I didn't adjust CrashPlan settings to get the fastest transfer on this PC.

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