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Advantages of Data Backup

alex — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:00:58 +0200

Imagine you are working on a presentation late at night and poof… suddenly the hard disk of your computer crashes. This results in the loss of a hard disk which may be replaced or repaired by the manufacturer depending upon when you bought it. However, what cannot be replaced are the documents, address book, maybe financial information and the presentation that you need to present to your boss in the morning. It may take you weeks to retrieve all this information.

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Introduction to backup

alex — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:30:55 +0200

The following chapters give you a brief introduction to the topic backup.

About this site

webmaster — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 12:22:38 +0200

Backup Methods

webmaster — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:42:20 +0200

This chapter is about the different methods of performing backup - either software-based, network-based or purely hardware-based.

Backup Software Available

webmaster — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:29:17 +0200

This chapter contains useful information about available backup software.

Backup Strategy

webmaster — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 15:30:43 +0200

This chapter explains different backpup strategies and helps with developing one.

Introduction

webmaster — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 19:07:40 +0200

Introduce yourself

Acronis True Image 10 Review

alex — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:23:43 +0200

OS Related Backup Services, NFS etc

alex — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 01:00:58 +0200

Does your OS provide any backup service? Nearly all of the currently available operating systems provide an easy method to backup your data. Sometimes, the features available may not be as extensive as those available in commercial backup software but backups can be taken without paying extra money the commercial programs.

OS Related Backup Services, NFS etc

alex — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 06:29:39 +0200

Backup over WAN / Internet

alex — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 01:00:58 +0200

Traditionally, backup in commercial offices has been on backup media such as magnetic disks, CD-ROMs, DVDs, etc. When the office administrator decided to backup the data, he had to close all open applications and take the backup of all files in the office server. If there were branches of a company spread over a large area, then in each branch there would be a person who would religiously take the backups.

Guidelines for Deciding a Backup Strategy

alex — Sat, 03 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Once you have decided to backup your data regularly, you need to decide on an effective backup strategy. The strategy will be different for different kinds of people. However, the features of an effective strategy remain the same. What are these features?

It allows you to restore any data you may need.
It is easy to follow.
It’s cost effective.

Online Backup Service General

alex — Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:00:58 +0200

To understand why you need to use online backup services, consider the reasons why you should backup your data in the first place. The answers are obvious – to protect against hard disk failures, unintended deletions and other causes of data loss. Online backup services come in picture in the other causes.

The Top Ten Online Backup Services

alex — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 01:00:58 +0200

There is no dearth of online backup services available in the market. Which among these services are the better ones? While some services provide reliability of the data, other provide cheaper service. Some services provide unique features which can be very helpful in certain cases.

Guidelines for Evaluation of Software

alex — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 01:00:58 +0200

If you ever tried to purchase backup software you must have realized that there are numerous of them and each one of them has its own specialty. In such a scenario, how do you evaluate the backup software?

Links to Selected Software Reviews and Tutorials

alex — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:00:58 +0200

http://www.backup-software-reviews.com/: This site has the reviews for the various Windows backup software. With Editor’s choice awards for the best backup software, users can decide which software to use.
http://www.backupcritic.com/: The main focus of this site is to provide tutorials as to how a user can perform various backup related tasks and the new trends that are emerging.

Data Recovery

alex — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 01:00:58 +0200

There is no doubt that you need to protect your data from loss as it contains your important documents and files which were prepared with months and sometimes years of efforts. Data protection is of two types:

Data backup and restore: In this option, we need to back up the data as per our schedule. Whenever needed, we can restore the data from the backup. The data which was created or modified after the backup was taken is lost when we restore the backup.
Data recovery. In this option, there are data recovery utilities which can help you recover your data even if you have not previously backed up your data.

Backup to Tape Media and External Disk

alex — Sat, 03 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100

Tapes are the earliest forms of data backup. A tape media consists of a long flexible ribbon made of flexible plastic coated with magnetic media. The tape is wound on spindles and stored in mechanical cartridges that protect it from dust.

Backups made to tape media are mostly used in corporate environments due the following reasons:

They are very costly

Tape media are able to store huge amounts of data

These have a long life

Backup to Other Media

alex — Wed, 26 Jul 2006 01:07:23 +0200

The cheapest way to backup your data is to use external devices like CD/DVD or USB drives.
Let us consider the features of the external media currently available:

CD-ROM Disks: One of the cheapest backup media available, the CD can store about 700 MB of data. One can easily store data on a CD with the help of CD-writers which are common in most computers available today.
DVD-ROM Disks: These are a bit costlier than CDs but considering that one DVD disk can store 4.2 GB of data; the cost per GB is less as compared to CD.
USB Drive: Falling memory prices have made these backup media very cost effective. The additional advantage of these drives is that they can be reused many times unlike the CD/DVD. The only drawback is that usually a USB drive is required on the computer which may not be present in all computers.

Backup Disk to Disk

alex — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 01:00:58 +0200

One of the ways to backup your data is to copy your entire disk to another disk. Naturally this is called disk to disk backup. Compared to backups made to tape or other media, disk based backups are faster, more easily restored and disks have become so cheap that every one can use them.

Depending on the storage system, backup times are noticeably and even dramatically shorter than those required for tape backups. In many companies, this technology renders the backup window a lot smaller. The outcomes being that backups are more up-to-date, since they can be run more frequently, while application and backup servers become available more quickly for other tasks and are under less strain.

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Why you need to backup

alex — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:26:33 +0200

Need For Backup

"Such a thing can never happen to me! It happens to others only!" So goes the mindset of most of us towards life in general. And the story with personal computers is not a tad bit different. In today's internet age a lot of our professional life and, to some extent, our personal life as well revolves around internet and computers. And hence this habit of taking things for granted although has rare but nonetheless serious repercussions when you lose your precious data.

Backup Services

alex — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 14:51:23 +0200

Services Related to Backup

Back up services can be of two kinds: one which backs up the documents to the local computer or other removable media and other is the backup service which backs up data to the internet. Local backup services refer to the services in built in the computer. On the other hand, online backup services provide us with many options. Let’s see how these services work.

Acronis Disk Director review

alex — Sat, 19 May 2007 16:43:44 +0200

Nero 7 Burning Rom

webmaster — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 19:16:50 +0200

Nero 7 Ultra Edition

There is no other software more dependable that Nero for burning CDs. It is serve-all software for managing all your audio and video content including watching, copying and editing. The latest version Nero 7 Ultra edition is an update version of original Nero. The new Nero 7 Ultra edition has better intuitive interface and all new features to manage your file collection. The old features have got an altogether new face lift in the new Nero 7 Ultra edition. Although Windows XP comes with a pre-installed feature for CD burning but Nero still holds the market as the most favored software for handling files.

Roxio Toast

webmaster — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:13:10 +0100

Roxio Toast

The new Roxio Toast is a robust product for disc-storage, managing and duplicating your hard disk. It is extremely helpful as it is capable of disc-spinning, capturing analog audio, printing directly to the disc and encoding video that fits the disc. Roxio Toast offers more convenient and capable mode of copying disc or data that are so easy to handle in Mac OS X. Its audio and video features compliment iLife in Mac. If you use multimedia regularly as a producer or consumer or an ardent back-up creator of your hard disk, then Roxio Toast justifies its price tag of $99.95 for one or more functions.

Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0

webmaster — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 14:36:26 +0100

Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0

Imagine a scenario where your hard disk drive is full and you deicide to upgrade to a new hard disk. You think you are facing a large re-installation project which is likely to take several days of tedious work. Luckily for you, there is Acronis Migrate Easy 7.0, software that migrates all the data on your computer , operating systems, programs, documents, address books, mail, settings and preferences in minutes automatically — just the way you had them.

Syncsort Backup Express

webmaster — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 15:38:23 +0100

Syncsort Backup Express

If you thought that only someone else’s hard disk can crash and not your, then think again. It can happen to you anytime. Just like you can meet with an accident anytime, so can you computer or all your computers across the network! Scary, isn’t it? The advantage with computers is that unlike you, they can be restored to their normalcy if you have a habit of taking appropriate back ups. If you meet an accident, you may take days or months to recover but if you have proper back up for your network, any mishap can be instantly resolved within a few hours. You can also save yourself from losing precious data and important information. Backup Express aptly solves your problem of taking a back up. Moreover, if you have network that operates on cross-platform, it just makes the job easier.

123 Copy DVD

webmaster — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:00:25 +0100

123 Copy DVD

DVD RW prices have reduced drastically which has made them quite affordable. This has led to increase in DVD burning each day. A DVD RW has also proved to be great way to create backup for data of any sort. Moreover, people are also burning DVDs to create a backup of their movie collection. A great way to burn DVDs is to use good DVD backup software. 123 Copy DVD is recent software that has aroused interest amongst people due to its convenience and easy of use.

Backing up Your PSP Games

webmaster — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:44:27 +0100

Backing up Your PSP Games

So you have got the original PSP games. Now you do not need to carry your UMD wherever your PSP goes. Moreover, PSP is one of the hottest handheld devices that give you movies, music, gaming and lots more. It is important to take backup of all your PSP games so that in case of a virus attack or malicious attack from any of the malware, you might not lose your original games. There are several ways that allow you to take backups of your PSP games.

Backing Up Your iPod

webmaster — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 12:58:22 +0100

Backing Up Your iPod

Did you ever suffer a bad stroke of luck when your system crashed and you lost all your music files? Did it leave you wondering how to copy your music files from your iPod back into your PC? At such times, you feel that there should be some way out to take back up of your iPod so that you may never have to go through this tedious process ever again. You can create a true back up of your iTunes music library from your hard disk.

Computer Associates’ ARCserve

webmaster — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:04:20 +0100

Computer Associates’ ARCserve

It can be quite cumbersome and tiring to take backups for data accumulated over the period of time. Your music files, documents, important information is mostly customized its according to your needs. It can be quite frustrating to lose them same in case of a system crash. Thus is it vital to take periodic backups of your important data files.

Doing Incremental Backups with Mozy

webmaster — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:34:28 +0100

Doing Incremental Backups with Mozy

Mozy offers simple and easy to use service for creating backups. You need to create an account with Mozy and give them your personal details such as email address, name, zip code, etc. in exchange for 2GB of online storage space.

Mozy Backup Service

webmaster — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:50:06 +0100

Mozy Backup Service Review

It is important to take backups of your data but it can be surely a daunting task. You can easily backup your data on a remote location but the monthly storage fee can be a limiting factor. However, you can opt for a Mozy backup service that offers free remote location backup of your data up to 2GB for Windows users and also backup’s changes automatically. If you need more space, you can easily pay nominal fee and acquire more space for your data.

XCopyPod & Xcopy9

webmaster — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:01:57 +0100

Review of XCopyPod & Xcopy9

One can easily download a movie on the iPod and play it whenever he wants. Similarly, you can easily download your favorite music on your iPod and enjoy good music anytime. But what happens to all those movies in your DVD collection or your favorite tracks stored under your iTunes library? For all those music lovers who have a huge music library at iTunes, there is some good news. Now you can transfer all your favorite music files to your iPod with the help of XCopyPoD.

XCopyPSP & Xcopy9

webmaster — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:07:26 +0100

Review of XCopyPSP & Xcopy9

For those who are used to long commuting and often carry movies while travelling, it can quite cumbersome to carry so many DVDs with them. Most of the people carry portable memory stick or USB device that can be easily plugged into the iPod or the Play Station. As the prices for DVD RW have reduced drastically, most of the people often prefer to take back up of their important data as well as their precious music and movie collections.

Top 5 Benefits of Acronis True Image

webmaster — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:53:41 +0100

Top 5 Benefits of Acronis True Image

Acronis True Image 11 is one of the best disk imaging applications for computers for business as well as personal needs.
It is capable of capturing images from Windows as well as Linux equivocally.
Acronis True Image is a bootable media that is capable of taking offline backups and images of your operation system.

Roxio Backup MyPC 6.0 Deluxe

webmaster — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:04:26 +0100

Roxio Backup MyPC 6.0 Deluxe

Roxio has launched its latest version 6.0 of Backup MyPC. The software has been popular amongst the system administrators for taking convenient back up and using the software for system recovery. The main reason for popularity of this software has been due to its ability to support wide range of hardware. It is quite efficient in handling tapes, CDs, DVDS, etc. It is also equivocally efficient with removable media such as Zip drives or JAZ drives. It also supports IDE, USB and SCSI drives. However, USB floppies should be avoided for any system recovery as the software does not have any DOS USB drives.

The Ultimate Mozy Guide

webmaster — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:21:11 +0100

The Ultimate Mozy Guide - 10 Tips You Need

Mozy Backup software has been one of the favorite backup software for all network administrators and computer users. It allows easy backup of all your important data, files, music, videos, etc. It gives an easy online backup to pull your files from anywhere to any machine in the world. Mozy is easy software that can be used even by the non-techie person. This gives a competitive advantage to Mozy over its competitors.

Sharing Data with Streamload

webmaster — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:05:24 +0200

Sharing Data with Streamload

Streamload is one of the most trusted and oldest websites for hosting your data remotely. If you need to store your files remotely for any purpose such as entertainment, business, personal use, remote access, etc. then Streamload offers myriad of such services to its users. It is one of the most reliable services offered for sharing your data online with others. Streamload is now available as Mediamax services.