Almost three quarters of companies and public-sector organisations across nine European countries might not recover all of their data if they suffer an IT failure according to a new report released by the IT group EMC.  For the survey a total of 1,750 European companies and organisations were quizzed across the UK,  France, Germany, Italy, [...]

Categories: Server

Data is now everywhere and we store pretty much everything as data.  Contacts, diaries, music, photographs, videos, conversations, business records, everything is data.  In fact more and more people are shredding the paper copies of everything they have and going digital with scanned copies of important documents being much easier to store.  Unfortunately this also [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic

Depending on your backup strategy, you may mirror your data backups for additional protection. One option here is to create a local system backup first and copy the backups to a remote location for safe keeping. This way it would be possible to access the latest backup(s) directly on the local computer and past backups [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Backing up data on your computer is important and most users know this. Windows features a backup utility that allows you to backup your system and files. This is a useful utility but sometimes you might find that it does not completely backup your files or an error occurs. If you need to backup your [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

The hardware driver support in Windows 7 is just fantastic, especially with consumer hardware with more and more companies submitting their drivers for official certification from Microsoft than ever before.  This not only means driver support on the Windows 7 installation DVD, but also through Windows Update.  You can still find computers however for which [...]

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The previous free version of Easeus Todo Backup was a recommendation in our Windows backup software overview. Easeus recently pushed out a new version of the program. Easeus Todo Backup Free 3.0 is still a free backup software for Windows. The developers have improved the software significantly. If you know the old version you won’t [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Backing up your work is essential. Many of us keep important documents on our computers that include work files, pictures of the kids, insurance documents, even bank statements. Many of these files are lost forever if your hard drive fails and you have no backup. You may think that hard drives these days are better [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows

In a home environment, many people neglect to backup their files and systems, and are then devastated when their computer fails taking all their precious files they’ve been collecting with it. Some people do backups, only to realise too late that the backups haven’t been working properly so when they’re needed they either contain data [...]

Categories: Knowledge

Not many are aware that it is possible to create Virtual Hard Drive images in Windows 7. Backing up your data is important and this article will detail how to backup data to a Virtual Hard Drive (VHD) or hard drive partition. Creating the Drive is the first step, but the backup is the crucial [...]

Categories: Tutorials Basic, Windows