Posts Tagged “backup”

“Wake-Up Call — Back Up Your External Data” by PCMech outlines some simple tools that you can use to back up the kinds of important data that some people tend to upload and forget about — photos, blog posts, and e-mail. Journal site JournalSpace recently experienced a complete loss of data, raising questions as to the [...]

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Gmail Backup is software that will backup your e-mail from Gmail’s web-based service. Gmail Backup will download all of your e-mail, folders, and labels from the Gmail service so that you can store the data on your own computer. We’re sure Google has some pretty good backup systems of their own in place, but it can [...]

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If you are not backing up the files on your computer, you are tempting fate. Hard drives fail all the time — do you want to lose all of your documents, pictures, movies, music, and work materials? External hard drives are extremely cheap, and Apple’s Time Machine backup feature requires little more than for you [...]

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