ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (WHAT THE TECH?) — Backing up your files is important, especially if your hard drive crashes or you click or tap or a wrong button and your files vanish. It’s so important, that ...

Manually backing up files in 2025 sounds almost comical. Most people I know trust their data to the cloud. Your photos are backed up to Google Photos the moment you take them, work documents auto-save ...

Backing up your documents and other files in Windows is always advisable in case the originals ever get lost or corrupted. That's especially true for files that are important, sensitive, or ...

Backing up. It’s such a simple thing on paper – making a copy of important files and putting them in a safe place. In reality, for many of us, it’s just another thing on that list of things we really ...

For free, the surprisingly capable FBackup 9 will back up files to or from any local storage including optical discs, to network locations, as well as to and from Google Drive and Dropbox. FBackup 9 ...

It doesn’t take a lot of work to keep copies of your phone’s photos, videos and other files stashed securely in case of an emergency. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer writes the monthly Tech Tip ...

Microsoft is now showing a new alert in the Start menu titled “Action advised – back up your PC,” and the alert is ...

Like most fans of the iTunes Music Store, I'm aware of its one-time download policy. Once I download a song, it's my responsibility and if lost, I will have to buy it again. Like far fewer iTunes ...

It happens without warning. Suddenly, access to your personal data gets interrupted by a simple hardware failure, a nasty virus, a cyberattack, a software glitch, accidental deletion or a human ...

Yesterday we reported problems with Retrospect's backup mechanism when it encounters files with non-English characters. Alan Sill suggests a viable alternative: "I have had good success using Carbon ...