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 ...

Online storage is becoming a commodity offering. So you'd think that it'd be simple to buy and use, like an external hard disk. Not so much. Storage companies are jockeying for position in this market ...

The importance of backing up your files seems obvious, but choosing how gets complicated fast. The built-in Windows backup option is painfully basic, while decent software costs serious money.

iCloud Photos is Apple's preferred way for iPhone users to sync their pictures, but if you use a Windows PC, I prefer Microsoft's OneDrive for back-ups and syncs. Here's how to automatically or ...

To reduce confusion, Google, in an official blog, announced it is combining Google Drive File Stream and Google Backup and Sync desktop apps with ‘Google Drive for Desktop’. The Google Drive for ...

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 ...

Acronis has expanded its data protection capabilities with a new version of the Acronis Backup Cloud and the introduction of a new private cloud-based file sync and share service. The expanded Acronis ...

Google has announced that it intends to unify its Google Drive solutions for keeping files in sync on users' desktops. Currently there are two desktop sync solutions for using Google Drive – Drive ...

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