The discontinuation of CrashPlan for Home on 22 October 2018 is coming soon (see “CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups,” 22 August 2017), so I’ve been receiving questions about how best to restore ...

Someone stole Bernard Nartey’s Windows 7 laptop. Now he needs to recover the data from his backup. Aren’t you glad you have a backup? Without it, you would lose everything—instead of just the hardware ...

Backing up your files is one of the most important things you can do to safeguard the data you create and store on your computer. To this end, Microsoft included a full backup and restore utility with ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

When it comes to backing up and restoring your PC, Windows 8 took a few steps forward and a few steps back. Your settings and apps in the new tablet-y interface (yeah, we’re still calling it Metro) ...

Reader Daniel Reese is having some difficulty restoring files backed up with Apple’s Backup 3. He writes (in part): [When I restore individual files] many of the files are empty. That is, they exhibit ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...

Though Windows 8 makes it easier to back up your settings using the SkyDrive cloud storage service, it actually doesn’t automatically back up the files on your computer. Instead, you’ll need to back ...

While personal computers range in cost from a few hundred dollars for a basic system to enthusiasts’ rigs costing thousands of dollars (or more), a computer is a physical object, and it can be ...

According to an EaseUS chat rep. with whom I just spoke, EaseUS TODO Backup (any version) cannot restore files and/or folders directly from tape. This person said that if you want to recover ...