Skip one-click backup apps. This rsync script gives you full control over what gets saved and when, plus logs and a few hard-won lessons.

The first rule of the royal society for keeping-your-hard-work-and-data-safe is: Always, always back up. The second rule is “it’s not that hard so get off your duff and do it.” It’s the latter that ...

Zerobyte is one of my favorite backup tools out there. It uses Restic for the actual backup engine and adds an intuitive web interface on top. Restic handles the encryption, compression, and ...

iMazing is your one-stop shop for iOS device backup and data transfer. Available on Mac and Windows, iMazing makes it really easy to keep backups of your iPhone’s messages, transfer across media and ...

Windows only: Backup Maker offers extremely simple wizard-driven backup to a variety of local media and remote hosts. Whether you'd like to backup to another disk, burn the files to a CD, or transfer ...

Most businesses test their backup systems on the same device they’re backing up — a critical oversight that can render recovered data completely unusable. Most businesses understand the importance of ...

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 ...

John Breeden II is an award-winning reviewer and public speaker with 20 years of experience covering technology. These days, many businesses are using Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint and OneDrive to ...

Have you ever noticed that insurance seems to operate on the Murphy’s Law principle? If you have it, you never need it, but as soon as the insurance is gone a catastrophe strikes. That is pretty much ...