In Mac OS X Leopard, Apple introduce a nifty automatic backup software called Time Machine. Time Machine is probably the easiest backup software available and has a sexy interface to find files and restore them. In the video below, you will see how Time Machine works and how the interface allows you to easily recover [...]

Inevitably, hard drives fail. It’s a part of life in the electronic age. Unfortunately, it always seems to happen when you are a) in a crisis or business emergency and b) when the backups you thought you had, you don’t have. I’ve been there – the hard drive starts making a clicking sound or (worse) [...]

We’ve used online backup services for years, including Mozy, Backblaze, Carbonite, and Connected. Over those years, the evolution of the services has been slow and the features have not expanded greatly. With Mozy 2.0, EMC promises a much improved user experience. The biggest change to the software is a new feature called 2xProtect – a [...]

Backup software has to meet a few basic standards to be considered good: it has to be easy to use, it has to be quick, and it has to be painless. Backing up your computer is not sexy. It’s not exciting. It doesn’t make you want to drop everything and jump right on that. It [...]

If you take a lot of photographs with your digital camera, you know that storage and backups can become a major problem. My wife is a professional children’s photographer and has just shy of 1 terabyte of photos stored on her Mac. Can you imagine the years of photos she would lose if that hard [...]