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2 Jericho moms' business helps save students' PC files

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Studentbackup.com, a small technology company in Garden City, got its start five years ago after Maggie Tolkin received a panicky, late-night call from her son at Duke University.

Ryan Tolkin, then 18, lost all his files in a computer crash.

"I said, 'No problem. You have a [backup] flash drive,' " Maggie Tolkin, now 50, of Jericho, recalled. "He said he didn't use it on a regular basis....

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