November 22, 2011 – 5:36 pm
Are you one of those people with massive quantities of photos, videos, and music on your external hard drive because it doesn’t all fit on your laptop, desktop or maybe that super fast SSD that you have? Since you are here I am sure you understand how important it is to backup that external hard [...]
November 21, 2011 – 4:44 pm
This is a computer users worst nightmare, they go to turn on their PC and nothing happens. Fine, it’s probably just the power supply, right? Not in this case. For this unlucky woman who works for a friend of mine, the hard drive totally fried – and took out the power supply with it. In [...]
October 6, 2011 – 4:13 pm
If you have lots of data and are looking for an online backup service that offers unlimited online storage then here are some options for you to consider. Monitoring backup quota usage or getting dinged for online backup overage is a hassle, frustration and can be expensive. There are not that many vendors offering an [...]
Let’s Review Backup Software Options Traditionally, backup software reviews would revolve around programs that would copy data from your computer’s hard drive and place it on floppy disk, zip disks, tapes, etc and actually “span” multiple copies of that media when it would not all fit on one disk or tape. Well, we’ve come a [...]
April 25, 2011 – 11:49 am
John Dvorak’s article How To Get Easy Offsite Backup On A Budget has a lot of merit, and it is truly better than what most people have for computer backup (nothing!) but there is a serious flaw in his plan. (Personal Note: I have great respect for Mr. Dvorak in general and read his articles [...]
How Close Are Your Backups To The Systems They Mirror? I have conversations with people all the time who have backups that stored off site and they feel well protected because of that; but that “site” is not that far away from the computer systems those backups are created from. The recent Japan disaster brought [...]
