Though it’s a bit pricey for its genre, Ascomp’s BackUp Maker Professional is awash with advanced and automation features. I must admit, when I first found out that Ascomp’s BackUp Maker Professional ...

Hard drives and SSDs have a habit of failing at inopportune moments (although when is a good time for storage to fail?), underscoring how important having a regular backup strategy is for keeping your ...

Saving files on your hard drive is the easy part; choosing how to back up those files can be more difficult. Why do you need backup software? If you ever have a hard drive fail, or are hit with an ...

Copying data files (documents, spreadsheets, databases, graphics, photos, music, etc.) from the computer's internal hard disk to a secondary medium, such as a removable hard disk, external hard disk, ...

Making a full system image backup preserves not only your files, but Windows and all its settings as well. Here are the best free Windows backup and recovery tools with step-by-step instructions. When ...

There’s nothing quite as gut-wrenching, frightening, and disheartening as losing all your precious files and folders in one fell, painful swoop. All those cherished pieces – the photos of your family ...

In my line of work, a bad day at the office is when someone brings in a computer with a failed hard drive and no backup. Experience has turned me into a glass is half-full technician, reciting the ...

MyPC Backup is a online backup program that is commonly bundled with free programs that you download off of the Internet. This program offers cloud backup services for your computer, but only allows ...

When it comes to Mac backup, most Mac users think of Time Machine. But as part of a backup plan, it’s a good idea to supplement Time Machine with another backup method, such as disk cloning, using an ...

Software that copies data from a single machine or from selected computers in a network to a storage medium. At periodic intervals, a backup of the entire hard drive or of selected files and folders ...

After viewing the article that I wrote titled “Are you obeying new e-records rules?” a faithful reader suggested that I write an article about how to backup computer files. Even though I wrote an ...