Backing up means to manually or automatically copy files from one location to another, usually from one physical drive to another, although it could also be to an online location. Syncing means to ...

Your PC’s storage media is subject to malware and, on occasion, natural disasters such as lightning, fire, etc. — which is why formulating a backup strategy is critical for keeping your data safe. Our ...

Data migration and backup are now important in keeping a business, since most are already in the digital world. Anything may disappear in a flash when there is an outage. This is why most companies ...

There are many ways to back up data on your PC. SyncBack Free is one such free Windows software that performs better with low memory usage. In this guide, we show you how to use SyncBack free on ...

Mozy is just as secure and effective as any online backup service out there, and it also offers sync for PCs and mobile devices. Our main gripe is that the sync and backup clients aren’t integrated, ...

Google’s new Backup and Sync (15GB free; larger storage options available for a fee) software tries to leverage Google’s existing Google Drive and Google Photos products by adding a file-backup option ...

The new Backup and Sync app for Windows and MacOS expands Google's approach to file storage spanning your PC and phone. Your choices: update now or update later. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Do you backup your files and photos on a regular basis? Most of us know that we should be backing up our data, but for one reason or another—usually the inconvenience of it all—we don't. That is like ...

Back in the day, IIRC, Crashplan offered free "peer" backup; you exchange USB hard drives with a buddy, Crashplan backed up to the remote USB drive over the Internet, with encryption. This meant very ...

Hopefully most our readers here have a good backup routine in place. After learning the lesson the hard way, I now I use an obsessive combination of a cloud-based system (I use SpiderOak, which we ...