Now that many, if not most, of us live our computer lives in a cloud-based world, local backup might seem less important. With Dropbox, Google Drive, OneDrive, and a host of other platforms storing, ...

More and more, the fragments of your life exist as particles on a disk mounted inside your computer—disks susceptible to temperature changes, power surges, fire, theft, static, and just plain wear and ...

I tried a few online backup services last year: Carbonite, Mozy, ProtectMyPhotos, and Titanize. I use Carbonite to back up my home system, but I have found the Achilles heel of online backup: it's ...

Editor’s note: On August 21, 2017, Code42 announced that it is no longer offering CrashPlan for Home. The company now focuses on business customers. As an enthusiastic evangelist for backups, I ...

If you’ve read any articles about Mac-based local and cloud backup software and services by me or any other long-time tech writers, you’ll know that, first, we largely recommended Code42’s CrashPlan ...