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 [...]

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Creating a system backup image can be extremely useful. If something goes wrong with your Windows 7 installation, you can’t log in, or files have become damaged and corrupted, you can boot directly from your repair disk to rectify the problem. You should note that when you restore from a system backup image, it is [...]

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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 [...]

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System Restore has been designed by Microsoft to provide the user with an option to restore the operating system into a previous state. Restore points are for instance created when software and new updates are installed, when a driver that is not digitally signed is installed or by user request. System Restore is only backing [...]

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Data backups should play an important part in a computer user’s schedule. Backups ensure that data is not lost if it gets deleted, overwritten or edited. This can be accidental or because of hardware failures or virus attacks. Backups can even ensure that data is still there if a computer gets stolen if the backup [...]

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We have mentioned Comodo Backup before in our backup software overview for the Windows operating system. The backup software has taken a step forward since then with version 2 available for public download. The interface, functionality and compatibility of Comodo Backup has changed in this version. It is now for instance compatible with 32-bit and [...]

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Most backup software programs are either installed on the local system or run from an external source that can be a removable drive, CD or network location. Portable backup software programs on the other hand are not that common. Zback is a portable software backup tool for the Windows operating system that can be run [...]

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It is essential to have a solid backup strategy in place with cloud storage space becoming more popular. While many users run backup software on their local computer system to backup important data only a few take care that uploaded data is also regularly backed up. The reason for this is that many users believe [...]

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Backing up data regularly should be one of the most important tasks of every computer user; Yet only a minority is doing it thoroughly and regularly. The rest is flirting with disaster as there are numerous incidents that can delete data on computer systems. The most common ones are hardware failures, which can mean damaged [...]

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