When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for ...

If you use a Mac, you’ve likely seen the little Time Machine icon in your menu bar and ignored it until disaster struck. For years, I relied on external drives or my primary server for backups, but I ...

Apple released a new developer beta build of macOS 26 Tahoe today, and it came with another big update for a familiar icon. The old Macintosh HD hard drive icon, for years represented by a facsimile ...

If you value your data—whether it’s some perfect photos you took last weekend, your entire music collection on iTunes, or your draft of the next great American novel—you must stay on top of regular ...

Apple charges a premium for built-in storage, so investing in an affordable external drive can help solve your storage problems without breaking the bank. Here are a few tips to ensure you’re making ...

Live CD: If you've been meaning to make a comprehensive backup of your system but available tools seemed a bit too arcane and command line dependent, Redo Backup is a Linux Live CD with a simple user ...

Although disk-to-disk backup methodologies have become incredibly popular over the past few years, the vast majority of enterprises — large and small — still use the same tape backups they implemented ...

Taking another step into data storage, Microsoft on Friday unveiled software for backing up files on disk-based systems. The product, dubbed System Center Data Protection Manager, is designed to tempt ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by Network World to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Correctly sizing a disk backup ...

MCI on Wednesday introduced a new fully managed data protection service based on disk backup designed to help companies with business continuity. MCI’s new Enhanced Smart Backup offering allows ...