Browse tag: backup

Browse tag: backup

Best Black Friday storage deals
Among this year's Black Friday bargains, PC World has found 1TB external models for $80, and a wave of 500GB portable drives for between $60 and $80.
Drobo expands line with Drobo S and Drobo Elite
Data Robotics, makers of the popular Drobo, is expanding its product line with two devices, the Drobo S (now with eSATA) and the Drobo Elite (now with Multi-Host).
Jungle Disk upgrades online backup services
Company adds file-syncing, better revision tracking, and improved Web access to services for home and business users.
Review: Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server
The new $999 Mac mini with Snow Leopard Server is a fantastic product for workgroups, small businesses, and even schools to use.
Six ways to botch your backups
Shocked that a company as prominent as Danger, Inc. could lose T-Mobile's Sidekick customers' data? Protect your business backups by avoiding these six mistakes.
New DiskTool Pro update includes CPU meter, improved Snow Leopard support
Macware on Tuesday announced an update to DiskTools Pro, the company’s software utility for hard drive management.
Backblaze opens online backups to businesses
Backblaze has been offering online backup services to individual Mac users since last April. Now it's expanding those services to businesses, too.
Four smart tips for managing scanned photos
Bring order and security to your scanned printed media with these smart iPhoto management and back up strategies
Ballmer: Sidekick outage 'not good'
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, stating the obvious for emphasis, called the Sidekick outage "not good," but said he thinks all data will be recovered. And he added that Microsoft needs to be more forthcoming in explaining to enterprise customers why a similar situation won't occur with the company's online services.
Microsoft recovers most Sidekick data
Microsoft has good news for most Sidekick users: the company says it has recovered most of the data for T-Mobile Sidekick users who saw personal information...
Mac News Briefs: Acrobat, Reader updates tackle security vulnerability
The 9.2 updates for Acrobat and Adobe Reader address vulnerabilities that could cause the applications to crash and potentially allow an attack to take control of the affected system. Also, SuperDuper and Cocktail both saw maintenance updates released on Tuesday.
Inside Snow Leopard's Guest account data loss bug
Learn about a rare but possibly painful data loss bug involving Snow Leopard and Guest accounts.
Sidekick fiasco highlights need for mobile backups
The loss of personal data that Sidekick users in the U.S. have suffered is a shame, but it also shows how important data stored on mobile phones has become.
WD announces new My Book Studio desktop hard drives.
The latest WD hard drive features e-label display and new backup software.
Blowing past Comcast's bandwidth cap
Glenn Fleishman took a bunch of online backup services for a spin, and inadvertently destroyed his Comcast terms of service. Oops.
HP boosts Mac integration with new MediaSmart home servers
HP has introduced two new MediaSmart home servers with expanded Mac, iPhone and iPod integration.
Review: Online backup services
Glenn Fleishman looks at seven Web services that let you back up your files over the Internet.
The $300 challenge: The student
Can this recent grad stock a basic Mac laptop with all the college essentials without going over budget?
Mozy online backup fixes Time Machine bug
Dechosaid it has fixed the problem associated with its MozyHome and MozyPro online backup services that occurred with users of Apple's Time Machine.
Apple ups Time Capsule to 2 terabytes
Apple has released a 2TB version of its Time Capsule backup system for $499.
Retrospect 8.1 adds PowerPC support, improves performance
Retrospect 8.1 is available for PowerPC Macs and improves performance on Intel systems, and it's a free update for 8.0 users.
Back up iPhoto's Faces database
If you use iPhoto's face-recognition tool, don't lose all of your hard work with one stroke of bad luck. Back up your Faces data to protect against data corruption or user error.
BRU Server 2.0 backup software sports redesigned interface
BRU Server 2.0 is backup software aimed at businesses; the new release sports a redesigned interface, optional encrpytion and other features.
ArchiveConnect offers enterprise-level file archiving
ArchiveConnect is available -- it's an enterprise-level file archive system that works using a Finder plug-in.
Put spare hard drives to work
What to do with that stack of old hard drives gathering dust? Here are three suggestions.
Time Warp lets you store Time Machine backups online
Jumping Bean Software's Time Warp allows you to store your Time Machine backups online via Amazon's S3 storage service.
Dropbox iPhone app ‘almost here’
Dropbox is almost ready to introduce an iPhone app that will let you look at the contents of your dropbox, make changes, download files to your iPhone, and sync iPhone photos.
The no-worry backup plan
Backing up data isn’t a one-size-fits-all proposition—what works for you will depend on the types of data you want to protect and, more important, how worried you are about keeping that data safe. Rob Griffiths' guidelines can help you figure out your own plan.
BackupLoupe 1.4
BackupLoupe lets you browse your Time Machine backups, showing you exactly what was backed up, and how much data was copied, at each event.
Reduce system workload during drive cloning
Cloning your Mac's hard drive as part of your backup strategy? Then make sure that Spotlight isn't active on that drive before you start cloning it.