While we recommend having a solid backup plan — and even have a step-by-step guide for it — it’s easy to get lost in the jargon and the many tools that seem to do the same thing. It’s common to assume ...

For today’s tip, I’m going to show you how to use Automator to write a very simple backup utility—you’ll be able to compress and copy a given folder with a single mouse click. While not an ideal ...

The Synology DS925+ builds upon the solid foundation laid by its predecessor, the DS923+, introducing upgrades tailored for data-intensive users. This powerful network-attached storage (NAS) solution ...

As disk costs fall tape is no longer the only option as a backup target. NAS file systems, for example, are easy to implement in nearly any data centre, and just about as easy to integrate with the ...

ECC RAM is a convenience in the same way having checksums of data, or using a redundant form of RAID when you have a 3-2-1 backup strategy: it warns you if the RAM is going bad (i.e. bit flips being ...

I am currently messing about with multiple 4TB WD USB passports for redundant home backups of mainly photographs, videos and music. Whats the best way to get this onto a shared NAS that my wife can ...

We recently looked at the problem with NAS backup and got an idea what some vendors are doing to backup the kind of unstructured file data that is becoming more commonplace in numerous workloads today ...

You know that you should have a long-range plan for regularly backing up all your important data. But there are times when you want the extra security of backing up an ongoing project at more frequent ...