Update: There are many solutions to the backup problem. We chose to look at CrashPlan—rather than Carbonite, Mozy, Amanda Enterprise, KineticCloud, the Tivoli Storage Manager, and others that we ...

Cloud-based backup services come as close as you can get to making this necessary, but oh-so-avoidable chore hassle-free. Even if you already back up your data to an external hard drive, you need a ...

You can lose your valuable data in plenty of ways, including hard-drive failure, theft (laptops are particularly vulnerable), and catastrophe (fire, extreme weather, earthquake). Although the cloud ...

I let my Mozy subscription lapse ~2 weeks ago, and I just got 'round to switching to CrashPlan. Holy cow is the client nice, and I'm uploading at 8.5Mbps (and climbing). At this rate I'll have all ...

Normally $49.99, this automated backup service affords unlimited space for your stuff. That makes it a better pick than Mozy or Carbonite. Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of ...

Now that many, if not most, of us live our computer lives in a cloud-based world, local backup might seem less important. With Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and a host of other platforms storing, ...

In honor of World Backup Day, it seemed time to review another file backup service. I personally prefer Dropbox because when I save to the folder, it's automatically saved to both my MacBook and on ...