I’ve been arguing with people (besides my children) lately, this time about backup options. Primarily, some of the vendors of the new USB 2.0 hard drives are mad because I don’t think they make a good ...

The good: All-metal scratch-resistant housing; supports FireWire 800 and USB 2.0 connections; drive offers very good performance. The bad: Comparatively expensive and doesn't have USB 3.0. The price: ...

Losing my iPhone or having my iPhone stolen is a nightmare of mine. I hope it never happens. That's why I try to prepare for the eventuality of having all my data gone in an instant. I back up my ...

The ongoing fuss surrounding the bug in Apple’s asr tool that is breaking bootable backups made with Carbon Copy Cloner, ChronoSync, and SuperDuper caused me to revisit my backup recommendations (see ...

NTI Backup Pro 7 offers a lot of backup functionality, including file/folder, image, continuous, and cloud backup; network; and even optical disc support. But I found numerous annoying glitches and ...

I need to buy a couple of internal 1 or 2Tb drives for storing backups of personal files. They don’t need to be performant so I was considering buying hard drives instead of SSDs. An SSD recently died ...

Backing up your files, ideally in multiple locations, is essential if you don't want to lose any data. Your documents, images, and videos can disappear if anything happens to your computer. It's also ...

If your computer crashes, your data may be recoverable, or it may not. The same applies if you get a virus. Some viruses are a mere annoyance, while others destroy or lock all your files. So just in ...

Time Machine remains an outstanding solution for local backups on your Mac, but backups require an external drive, no cloud backups here. We all understand the importance of backing up a Mac, despite ...

I'm trying to test this sucker out but can't find the files on my remote drive. Backup said it worked (it was scheduled for the middle of the night) but I didn't see any file changes or capacity ...