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 [...]

I’ve used a number of USB Flash drives over the years to carry data with me, transfer it between work and home, or store school papers to print at the lab. USB Flash drives are immensely useful – and with storage in the multiples of gigabytes now, can store more data than common hard drives [...]

For years, I wondered what was wrong with me? Why didn’t I feel it necessary to backup my computer on a regular basis? I wanted my data safe, but I didn’t take the time to implement a good backup strategy. I often searched for the holy grail of backups, but never found one. So why [...]