The discontinuation of CrashPlan for Home on 22 October 2018 is coming soon (see “CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups,” 22 August 2017), so I’ve been receiving questions about how best to restore ...

Cloud storage and cloud syncing seem to have crossed the border between fad and necessity. With many people losing their mobile devices daily (1 every 3.5 seconds, according to sources), backing up ...

It wasn't one of the more publicized features, but Windows 8 actually comes with a brand-new backup feature called File History, that works similar to Apple's Time Machine: It automatically backs up ...

A while back, I developed a PowerShell script that I use for creating air gapped backups of my file data. Even though I put a lot of effort into building this script and testing it over and over again ...

According to an EaseUS chat rep. with whom I just spoke, EaseUS TODO Backup (any version) cannot restore files and/or folders directly from tape. This person said that if you want to recover ...

Silent corruption can render your backups useless ...

PowerShell recovery scripts using WBAdmin no longer work in Windows 11, but VHDX mounting offers a manual workaround for restoring files. I recently wrote an article in which I walked you through the ...

System Restore Points are states of Windows OS that can be used to fix the computer if anything goes wrong, right from missing system files to unstable unsigned drivers. That said, all Restore Points ...

Learn how to backup your apps, contacts, important files, pictures and others from your Samsung Galaxy J5 and restore them later. I cannot stress enough how important it is that you know how to ...