If you are looking for a command line utility to handle all of your Linux backup needs, you really need look no further than this tool that bases itself off of the perennial backup favorite rsync. Rsnapshot takes the rsync utility and makes it more useful than it already was. With rsnapshot you can retain multiple [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

In my recent trend of covering Linux backup tools I have, so far, covered Flyback (“Quick and easy backups with Flyback“) and Backerupper (“Simple gui backup tool Backerupper“). Both tools are GUI tools that make the process of backing up your Linux files and folders a simple task. This time around I want to add [...]

Categories: Desktop Manager, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

I back up a lot. I have scripts that do automated backups and I often backup to CD. But there are times when I want to be able to do a quick and dirty backup of a single directory, in order to email a directory, or so that directory can be added to a later [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Basic

The ability to burn CDs is one of those issues that often perplexes many new users (to any operating system). For Windows users it’s about finding software to do the job. For OS X users it’s about knowing where to add a burnlist. For Linux users it’s just knowing that your operating system can in [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

I administer a lot of web sites. And all of these web sites need backup solutions. Since most of those web sites use LAMP servers it only made sense to set up a backup system using the available, included open source tools. It didn’t take long to create a solid backup system and, with the [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Tutorials Advanced, Tutorials Basic

Creating backups is just one step in taking precautions that sensible data can be recovered if anything should happen to a computer’s storage device. Depending on the location they are stored in backups can also be subject to change. This can for example be the case if parts of the backup storage become unreadable. It [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

AutoSave Essentials is a new commercial backup software developed by Avanquest which can be used to backup important data easily with minimal user interaction. That is the biggest selling point of the software. It comes with three predefined backup plans for music, documents and photos minimizing the time a user needs to configure the backup [...]

Categories: Operating Systems, Software, Windows

Zoogmo offers a way to securely backup personal data and store that data on so called partner computers. Partner computers can be anything from USB devices, network computers or even the computer of your friend that you can access over the Internet. The advantage of this approach is that you backup will be stored in an encrypted form on an external computer so that it remains accessible in the case of a computer crash.

Categories: Operating Systems, Security, Software, Tools, Windows

Files do not last forever. Corruption can be caused by hard drive failures or unreadable compact disks for instance. The files might be partially readable but this does not help much if it is corrupted. There are some ways of preparing yourself against data loss. One obvious way is of course to make regular backups of your important files. But it could of course happen that backups get corrupted as well which most of the time happens in the worst moments possible.

Categories: Operating Systems, Tools, Windows