How to safeguard your personal data with TrueCrypt and SpiderOak. There are so many cases of personal identifiable information (PII) or any type of data exposed on the Internet today. The details ...

Hard drives and SSDs have a habit of failing at inopportune moments (although when is a good time for storage to fail?), underscoring how important having a regular backup strategy is for keeping your ...

Bareos (Backup Archiving Recovery Open Sourced) is a cross-network, open-source backup solution that preserves, archives and recovers data from all major operating systems. The Bareos project started ...

CrashPlan is an automated backup system that does the job, but it’s not without its pitfalls.The software offers a cross-platform backup solution that’s reliably easy to use once you configure the ...

Does anyone know of a good program to backup files to an external server that runs under both linux and windows? I currently have a linux box running as a smb server, it would be optimal to have one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover the exciting intersection of Linux and handheld gaming. This article is more than 5 years old. You don’t have to be an ...

Restoring personal data and operating systems when disaster strikes can be filled with gray areas and worries that the backup tool does not miss any critical files. The process can be daunting for ...

Jack Wallen shows you how simple it is to get a powerful, reliable backup solution installed on your Linux servers. Image: ribkhan/Adobe Stock Do you have a reliable backup solution running on your ...

I have particular folders on my desktop that contain very important folders (such as my book manuscripts). Those folders must be backed up at all times, otherwise, I run into the possibility of losing ...