First mooted by US photographer Peter Krogh in a book about digital asset management for photographers, the 3-2-1 backup rule has been seminal in guiding organisations in their backup strategy. This ...

Seven years of photos. Her son’s first steps. His first day of kindergarten. Gone. Here’s the difference between sync and backup, and why it matters more than you think.

PCMag editors select and review products independently. If you buy through affiliate links, we may earn commissions, which help support our testing. We all know we're supposed to back up our data; ...

Organisations that use cloud IT or cloud-based applications often do so in the belief they can spend less time managing IT and more time running the business. Partly, this is because customers see ...

One of our favorite online backup services, iDrive, has added a new feature: unlimited cloud-to-cloud backup from Microsoft 365 Personal accounts. This might feel somewhat familiar: iDrive offered a ...

Automatic backups are essential for safeguarding your data from hardware failures, ransomware attacks, and accidental deletions. By setting up scheduled backups, you ensure files, applications, and ...

Cloud backup services are the OG of online storage. Long before internet bandwidth allowed you to work online, there were services dedicated to providing that all-important third copy in the backup ...

So I've always tried to follow the 3-2-1 rule for personal backups (3 copies of the data, 2 backups, 1 backup off-site). My NAS crashed a couple of years ago, right around the same time as a house ...

Key takeaway: In these 10 cloud disasters, only one company came out unscathed, and it’s the one that had a tested third-party backup of its cloud data. I’ve always called for independent backups of ...

To access WhatsApp backups directly on a computer, you can use dedicated tools from Coolmuster - tailored for both Android and iOS users. These tools eliminate the need to restore backups to a mobile ...