Tag: BACKUP

Christmas is coming, and you're about to have a ton of time off. Some of that time will be spent energetically tearing apart beautifully-wrapped gifts, and eating food is certainly next on the list of priorities. Obviously you have to play with your new gifts (or put on your new socks), but after that... after the postprandial sofa-surfing grunts and burps and farts... well, there isn't a whole ...

Motorola has acquired Zecter, Inc. -- a company whose name you probably haven't heard before, but which is behind two very cool services: ZumoDrive and ZumoCast. While we haven't covered ZumoDrive before, it's basically a cloud backup and sync solution that gives you 2 GB of space for free, and has very nifty mobile clients to make sure your files are with you wherever you go. Lee looked at ...

With multiple devices syncing your contacts this way and that, with changes, additions, and deletions from all over the place, it's pretty easy to end up with a muddle mess of data. Thankfully, if you sync your contacts with Google, you've now got a backup plan should everything hit the fan. Google has introduced a restore feature for Google Contacts that allows you to undo any mistakes you've ...

When I reviewed SugarSync for Android in September, I came away with one resounding conclusion: it's better than Dropbox. The Android experience is better, and the Web experience is better. There was just one niggle: the free version of SugarSync was feature-crippled. Earlier today, however, SugarSync lifted the crippling restrictions from its free version and bumped the storage up to 5 GB. In ...

It stands to reason that Windows 8 would feature some seriously kicked-up cloud integration features, and built-in backup certainly seems like a good place to start. If this new job posting out of Redmond is any indication, Microsoft seems to think so, too. The posting states, "We are currently working on a Windows Azure-based service and integrating with certain Microsoft online services and ...

Textarea Cache is a longtime Download Squad favorite. In fact, it has been featured in our 2009 Firefox add-on pack, and I've been using it for ages. It's a very simple add-on that constantly saves the contents of whatever text area you're writing in. Then, if (or rather when) Firefox crashes, you still have your text. If you only compose Gmail messages, it may not be very handy (because Gmail ...

256-bit encryption certainly sounds like it's secure. But depending on how a company implements that encryption, it may not provide quite the level of protection you'd think. That appears to be the case with BlackBerry backup files, if reports from Russian security firm Elcomsoft turn out to be true. Using systems running an Intel Core i7 CPU, they were able to break the 7-character unlock ...

I'm not one who likes to throw around the "killer" label when talking about a new app, but Insync is about as close as I'd ever come to doing it. Why? Insync is a new app for Mac and Windows which works like Dropbox, but there's a rather awesome twist: it's totally integrated with Google Docs. Install Insync, authenticate with Google, and your local Insync folder begins pulling down your Docs ...

Over the past week, a lot has changed in the PS3 modding and hacking community. In just a few short days, the PS3 has shifted from almost-impossible-to-hack to become both the easiest and cheapest console to jailbreak. All you need is a USB memory stick and some open-source code -- or an Android phone or TI-84 calculator. I should warn you that Sony has just released a firmware fix that renders ...

I'm an avid Dropbox fan. I've been using it for a long time now, and it's one of a handful of applications that I think of as "mission critical" on my system. But there are a couple of things that have always irked me about Dropbox. First and foremost, there are the rates. It's US$9.99/month for 50GB. Really? With online backup solutions such as Backblaze and Mozy offering unlimited storage for ...

When I first glanced at System Nucleus, I thought it might wind up being just another system reporting tool, spilling details about my system to a text file for posterity. In fact, that's barely the tip of the iceberg -- System Nucleus features a number of useful tools for Windows troubleshooting, tweaking, and maintenance. One of my favorite components is the backup & recovery tool, which ...

xPud is a slick little live Linux distribution. Apparently, it also makes a nice foundation for a backup and recovery tool. Redo Backup is just that: a small, speedy Linux live CD that provides an easy way to backup and restore the entire contents of your hard drive. Redo utilizes Partclone for the heavy lifting, and it also provides automatic mounting of Linux and Windows shares so that ...

I love it when troubleshooting only serves to aggravate the problem. Do you know that warm, fuzzy feeling you get right after you finish executing a long, irritating troubleshooting procedure, only to realize that it screwed with your system and made it even worse than it was before? Ahh, ... that warm glow. Today, I got to experience it for the second time while using System Restore under ...

I have a fairly serious backup fetish. I don't take data loss lightly, and I do everything I can to prevent it from happening to me. At the moment I am using four different backup strategies and services to safeguard my files -- online storage using several different services and local backup. In the "local backup" front, Oops!Backup is my chosen solution. Simply put, it is Time Machine for ...

Rsync [wiki link] is a great way to backup and synchronize files, but developer Thomas Döring couldn't find a Windows GUI front-end that met his needs. Like a lot of enterprising coders, he decided to take matters into his own hands and build one. The result: QtdSync. The small download includes both the QtdSync client (which is fully portable) and server apps, as well as a sync monitor ...