Design a file backup system
Design a system that backs up files from many machines and restores them on demand. You may assume basic file operations exist; focus on how backups work.
Cover full versus incremental backups, chunking and deduplication, how changes are detected, where backup data lives and how it stays durable, restoring a file or a whole machine to a point in time, retention, and what happens when a backup is interrupted.
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