Backing up and archiving data have distinct functions, and not recognizing that it’s important to have both can lead to access problems and even legal troubles. If you want to make a backup person ...

While personal computers range in cost from a few hundred dollars for a basic system to enthusiasts’ rigs costing thousands of dollars (or more), a computer is a physical object, and it can be ...

The discontinuation of CrashPlan for Home on 22 October 2018 is coming soon (see “CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups,” 22 August 2017), so I’ve been receiving questions about how best to restore ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...

Securing data means to copy. Copiare is the Latin word for copy by hand. When in former times books were copied manually, today we have to take care of our files. This way production data stays ...

Following the release of the iOS 17 beta for developers in June, Apple has now released a public beta for anyone interested in trying out the new software ahead of the official launch this fall. But ...

The principle is to make a single archive containing all files on the hard disk to make a backup. Under Linux, it is possible to access all the files and modify them even if they are in use. It is ...

Regularly creating iCloud or iTunes backups should be routine for every iOS user, but if you want to upgrade to a beta version of iOS or if you think you might want to downgrade shortly after ...

Syncing your Evernote files to both your PC and Evernote’s servers may give you a feeling of security, but remember: Syncing is not the same as a backup system. Despite Evernote’s safeguards, there’s ...

Time Machine is an archive rather than a backup, because it retains multiple versions of files as you change them. That’s useful, because if you’re editing an image, a word-processing file, or another ...