Q: At least once a week I do a backup to an external hard drive, a Western Digital My Passport Ultra. I usually shut off the router, thereby disconnecting the computer from the internet, before ...

As iPhone storage capacities increase each year with high-resolution photos and 4K videos, your iCloud storage and internal iPhone storage can fill up fast. Now it’s vital to ensure all your ...

This is the third post in a series of posts describing a variety of home backup strategies and options. Now things start to get more interesting and viable. External drive backup has been the primary ...

Once installed, keeping Restic up to date is effortless. The tool includes a self-update command that automatically downloads ...

Congratulations on backing up your PC—but you aren’t as safe as you may think you are. Files on your backup drive can be just as vulnerable to disaster as files on your main system are. Most recently, ...

If you’ve got a tiny hard drive on your Mac and a large-capacity iPhone or iPad (or both!), you might worry that you’re about to run out of space due to all the stuff you want to back up from your iOS ...

an external drive to recover with connotes a bootable drive, while a backup drive is just formatted partition(s). effectively, you need to build an OS disk with recovery tools, in order to have a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how to do more with your consumer gadgets. Another week, another monster storm bearing down on the US mainland. I've ...

Slim, attractive, and fast (for a USB 3.1 hard drive), there’s really nothing we dislike about the Backup Plus Ultra Touch except being forced online to download the bundled software. Though my review ...

I know some of the basic theory, I'm just wondering if anyone's actually had any experience with them? I have never seen such a product, but to be fair I haven't ever looked for one either. I see a ...

If you're in the market for an external hard drive to use for backing up your Windows 7 computer, you might be asking how much space you need. Microsoft recommends a hard drive with at least 200 ...