Backing up means to manually or automatically copy files from one location to another, usually from one physical drive to another, although it could also be to an online location. Syncing means to ...

Your PC’s storage media is subject to malware and, on occasion, natural disasters such as lightning, fire, etc. — which is why formulating a backup strategy is critical for keeping your data safe. Our ...

Data migration and backup are now important in keeping a business, since most are already in the digital world. Anything may disappear in a flash when there is an outage. This is why most companies ...

Mozy is just as secure and effective as any online backup service out there, and it also offers sync for PCs and mobile devices. Our main gripe is that the sync and backup clients aren’t integrated, ...

Losing data on your system can be a nightmare, especially if it is your work computer. Thus, backing up your system from time to time is important. Usually, most users aren’t conscious of this.

Google’s new Backup and Sync (15GB free; larger storage options available for a fee) software tries to leverage Google’s existing Google Drive and Google Photos products by adding a file-backup option ...

Hopefully most our readers here have a good backup routine in place. After learning the lesson the hard way, I now I use an obsessive combination of a cloud-based system (I use SpiderOak, which we ...

One option is to map the emails on your system’s Outlook client and download them as a .pst file. However, since Outlook is part of the Microsoft Office package, it isn’t free software. Some users ...

Back in the day, IIRC, Crashplan offered free "peer" backup; you exchange USB hard drives with a buddy, Crashplan backed up to the remote USB drive over the Internet, with encryption. This meant very ...

Making backups of your Mac’s Photos Library are among the more popular questions to Mac 911. It’s not enough for many people to have one backup made by Time Machine; a lot of you also want a ...