The first rule of the royal society for keeping-your-hard-work-and-data-safe is: Always, always back up. The second rule is “it’s not that hard so get off your duff and do it.” It’s the latter that ...

Professional computer people can be a bit harsh about backing up data. For that very reason, corporate I.T. departments are a great place to look for guidance on keeping your home data safe. The good ...

Data storage and backup systems used to have a much higher profile in the industry. Prior to its acquisition by Dell in 2016, the annual EMC World event attracted around 14,000 people. That show is ...

You probably know you should have proper backups. You have important data spread across home servers, NAS boxes, VPSes, and maybe a few cloud buckets. You also know the options usually fall into two ...

Learn how to back up your computer automatically with Windows, OneDrive, and third-party tools while keeping data secure, organized, and easy to restore.

Why copying and pasting isn't a real backup: The danger of 'silent' data corruption ...

I’ve been covering Windows backup software for over 20 years, and it simply astounds me that Microsoft and third-party vendors have yet to offer their billions of users a dead-simple, dead-obvious way ...