The new File History feature in Windows 8 can automatically back up your documents, music, pictures, and other personal files. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

The Android backup system enables Android users to back up and restore data on their devices. There are several built-in ways to do this; you can use the Auto Backup for Apps, which sends your app ...

Imagine your documents, photos, videos, and other files are gone forever by sudden system crashes or storage device failures. Quite scary, right? However, to prevent this from happening, Microsoft has ...

Windows 11 often auto-enables a OneDrive feature called Folder Backup without telling users that it is doing so.

Backing up your documents and other files in Windows is always advisable in case the originals ever get lost or corrupted. That's especially true for files that are important, sensitive, or ...

Windows 10 includes an enhanced version of the backup tools introduced in Windows 8/8.1. This set of features, called File History, is a major change from the image-based Windows 7 backup program.

If you often play games on your computer, you should check out Game Backup Monitor. It will help you automatically back up the configuration files of your games. It is a free and open-source software ...

It won't do what most third-party backup solutions can, but Windows File History, a relic from Windows 8.1, does a reasonably good job of protecting Windows 10 data. When it comes to protecting data ...

Copying data files (documents, spreadsheets, databases, graphics, photos, music, etc.) from the computer's internal hard disk to a secondary medium, such as a removable hard disk, external hard disk, ...

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