SugarSync: The Most Well-Rounded Free File Backup & Syncing Service
File backup is not a new conversation or topic by any means. If you search Google for “file backup” you will likely be overwhelmed by services and articles on the topic. It is a vast market and there is a lot to choose from. Within this market, however, only a few stand out. We know most of them: Dropbox, Google Drive, SkyDrive and others like Mozy, SpiderOak, and on and on. Among all of those there is still one that rises above the rest and that is SugarSync.
Read This Before Choosing An Online Backup Provider
Backing up your files is a no-brainer - at least it should be. Hardware failure, security breaches, natural disasters, thieving scumbags and clumsiness can all lead to heart-in-mouth moments when you realise that your precious data might be gone for good. Data recovery where possible can cost thousands, but you should find a personal online backup solution for less than $100 per year.
These Guys Didn't Back Up Their Files, Now Look What Happened
If there is anything I learned during those early years of working with computers (and the people that use them), it was how critical it is to not only save important stuff, but also to save it in different places. I would back up floppy drives to those cool new zip drives as well as the local PC hard drive. Never, ever had a single copy of anything. Unfortunately, even today, people have not learned that lesson.
Cure Backup Anxiety! Use PicBackMan To Automatically Bulk Upload Your Photos To Multiple Accounts
It’s time to hitch up the pants and do some backing up of all my precious memories captured in the snaps. In geek-speak, I am going to create redundant backups of my photos using multiple online storage services. Sounds impressive I bet! But doff your hats to the free software I have picked for this bulk job – PicBackMan.
Cloud Storage Options For the HP TouchPad That You Should Know About
HP TouchPad users have a number of cloud options (whether using webOS or Android), enabling them to ensure that data remains safe on a remote server that can be accessed from a different computer in the event of mobile device failure.
Backup4all Pro: A Complete Solution to Windows Backup [Giveaway]
The world of backup software is very extensive and competitive on the Windows platform. Software like Backblaze, Crashplan, and Mozy are some of the most well-known proprietary titles in this area. Backup4all Pro is a different piece of software in the respect of how how much detail and control the user has over their backups and logs. After using it a bit, I'd recommend Backup4all Pro to any backup enthusiast, novice or not. Here at MakeUseOf, we're going to be giving away 25 copies of one of the best all-around Windows backup solutions on the web, totaling at a cost of near $1250!
The Ultimate Triple Backup Solution For Your Mac [Mac OSX]
As the developer here at MakeUseOf and as someone who earns their entire income from working online, it's fair to say my computer and data are quite important. They’re set up perfectly for productivity with my favourite apps and preferences. That’s why when my hard drive ground to a halt yesterday, I got a little bit panicky.
When iPhones Go Wrong – Restoring From iCloud Backups [iOS]
Like any Apple product, the iPhone just works right? Unfortunately, we don’t live in a perfect world and regardless of what anyone will tell you, iOS is not perfect. Things go wrong, but luckily there are some great counter-measures and third-party tools to soften the blow.
What Is The Best Backup Solution? [Geeks Weigh In]
Ten years ago an external hard drive – or even a physical disc such as a CD-ROM – was the only practical way to back up files. Consumer-grade network storage solutions were primitive, expensive and hard to use. Cloud storage? What's cloud storage? More choice is great, but it also brings a dilemma. What should you choose to handle your backups?
Moborobo: The Best Tool To Manage Your Android Phone From Your Computer [Windows]
Our Android devices have plenty of information on them that sometimes we'd like to transfer over to our computers so that we can manipulate that information, use it with our computer's programs, or simply save as a backup location for your phone's information. However, after all these years I've never really heard of any software that can do this.
How To Back Up PCs To Each Other Via The Internet Using Crash Plan Personal
Backing up the data on your computer is vital. Yet not everyone does something about it. Why? Because backing up a computer remains a bit of a pain. If you own more than one computer, however, the answer may already be in your home. You could use your computers as backups for each other.
Easily Back Up & Restore Files With Altaro Oops!Backup
From the developers of Hyper-V backup comes Altaro Oops!Backup ($37) -- a particularly slick, full-featured one backup solution for home PC users. We’re giving away 25 Altaro Oops!Backup licenses worth $925 in total! Read on for your chance to win.
How To Freeze Or Uninstall Apps That Came With Your Phone [Android]
One of the biggest problems Android has is that vendors are obsessed with the concept of somehow “adding value” to their devices. Instead of just shipping Android as it was meant to be used, Samsung, HTC, and the other phone makers insist on stuffing their devices full of "unique" applications that make the Android experience infinitely more confusing and irritating.
Best Back-Up Tips For Your RememberTheMilk Tasks
For many of us who work in the cloud, we’ve come to rely on our favourite services quite heavily. We also sometimes love and trust them perhaps a little more than we should at times, leaving ourselves open to losing everything we have built with the service so far. So I put a bit of thought into the best ways to back up RTM tasks so they’ll always be protected and available.
How to Get Wget for Your Mac
Macs are great, with their neat UI and a Unix back-end. Sometimes you get the feeling you can do just about anything with them. Until one day you’re trying to do something simple and you realise what you need is just not available natively. In this case, I’m talking about wget, an incredibly useful command-line tool to download whole webpages, including media and as much link depth as you require.
What Everybody Ought to Know About Securing Their Mobile Phone
As the processing power of mobile phones continues to increase, so their use as a de facto communications and storage device gains more and more users. The end result is a society of connected individuals carrying around expensive hardware holding all of their most important data from contacts to document, music to movies and photos and games.
How to Download & Back Up Your Gmail & Other Google Data
We’re storing more and more data in the cloud these days. Email, contacts, documents, photos, calendar entries - you name it, it’s on Google’s servers. But what happens when the services we rely on go down? When the US government seized Megaupload, many users lost data they were storing on Megaupload’s servers.
Upload to Multiple File Hosts the Easy Way With the Open-Source Project, Neembuu Uploader [Cross-Platform]
Is one of your New Year’s Resolutions to start actually backing up your data? If so, you’re in luck because we’ll be discussing today an open-source program that will let you upload to multiple file hosts at once. There are a couple of web apps that can do more or less the same but what distinguishes Neembuu Uploader is that it’s open-source and it also allows you to define your account login details.
Back Up Your Entire Hard Drive With Redo Backup & Recovery
Easily make a copy of your entire hard drive . Don't just back up your data: back up all of your software, your settings and everything else by cloning your entire hard drive. Redo Backup makes cloning your system easy, but also gives you access to file recovery and a variety of other tools. You can even browse the web while everything's happening.
How To Create A Data Backup Tool With SyncToy & VB Script
We've covered a lot of backup solutions here at MUO, and all of these solutions are great, but if you're working in an environment that is wary about free 3rd party software packages, or companies that want to stick with Microsoft products only, then you may find yourself without a good solution. Enter SyncToy and VB Script.