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20 January 2023 — 8 min read
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20 January 2023 — 8 min read
What is Cloud Backup? Cloud vs Local Backup Comparison
Cloud backup vs local backup is a critical debate for many businesses. In this article, we will explore the positive and negative sides of both approaches. Moreover, we will show you how to combine the two methods to keep your data safe, ensure unhindered data access, and carry out disaster recovery if needed.
20 January 2023 — 9 min read
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20 January 2023 — 9 min read
What is Cloud File Sharing and how does it benefit the business?
As you’re looking to cut costs and increase employee satisfaction, you might be looking into allowing more employees to work remotely. Recent research indicates that remote employees are more productive and save your company money. However, the research also suggests that most employees prefer to work from home only part-time. To ensure security and information sharing, you're looking for a solution that enables cloud file sharing for businesses like yours.
20 January 2023 — 8 min read
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20 January 2023 — 8 min read
What is Cloud DR (Disaster Recovery)? Cloud vs On-Premise
Before your organization makes an investment to support your disaster recovery (DR) strategy, be sure you understand the pros and cons of each choice. For some organizations, on-premises DR may be the right solution, while other organizations can save money and achieve the best DR protection with a cloud-based DR solution.
22 December 2022 — 8 min read
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22 December 2022 — 8 min read
What is the difference between incremental, differential, and full backup?
Both differential and incremental backups are "smart" backups that save time and disk space by only backing up changed files. But they differ significantly in how they do it, and how useful the result is.
21 December 2022 — 5 min read
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21 December 2022 — 5 min read
Acronis Universal Restore Ensures Bare-Metal Restore of Dissimilar Hardware
Google Drive is a personal cloud storage service from Google that lets you store and synchronize digital content across computers, laptops, and mobile devices, including Android tablets and smartphone devices. It’s a great product – it currently offers 15 GB of cloud storage for free, which can be increased to 100 GB with a monthly subscription.
20 December 2022 — 19 min read
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20 December 2022 — 19 min read
How to Back Up a Hard Drive and Restore Your Computer?
There’s an old saying in IT that goes something like this: “You never realize how important backups are until you need one and don’t have one.”
20 December 2022 — 7 min read
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20 December 2022 — 7 min read
What is the difference between RPO and RTO?
What is RPO? Recovery Point Objective (RPO) generally refers to the amount of data that can be lost within a period most relevant to a business, before significant harm occurs, from the point of a critical event to the most preceding backup.   What is RTO? Recovery Time Objective (RTO) often refers to the quantity of time that an application, system and/or process, can be down for without causing significant damage to the business as well as the time spent restoring the application and its data.
20 December 2022 — 30 min read
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20 December 2022 — 30 min read
How to Backup and Restore Windows?
Backup software creates copies of the data on your system so you can recover in case your original data is lost or damaged.
20 December 2022 — 25 min read
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20 December 2022 — 25 min read
Hard Drive Recovery Software for Windows and Mac
You accidentally deleted a file and already emptied the recycle bin when you realize you need that file back.
20 December 2022 — 8 min read
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20 December 2022 — 8 min read
What is the 3-2-1 Backup Strategy?
Backup is important but it is just as important to remember that having one backup copy is sometimes not enough. For example, let’s assume that you backup your computer to an external drive, which you keep in your home office. If your computer crashes, you have the backup copy. However, if a fire breaks out in your home, it will destroy both your computer and the external drive.
24 October 2022 — 21 min read
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24 October 2022 — 21 min read
How to back up an iPad
Essentially, backup serves to preserve your sensitive data from potential attacks and data leaks. Some backup solutions only back up specific files and folders, while others can take a snapshot of your entire device to enable a full recovery. Other solutions focus on user preferences to only back up PC or Mac but don’t support mobile devices.
18 October 2022 — 15 min read
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18 October 2022 — 15 min read
How to backup Microsoft Office 365?
While online access is convenient, users must mitigate the risk of data loss and avoid losing access to their email. If left unprotected, M365 can pose data control issues, security vulnerabilities, and regulatory exposure.
07 September 2022 — 9 min read
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07 September 2022 — 9 min read
Windows 10 vs Professional Windows 10 Backup Software
According to StatCounter, TechSpot, and other sources, mobile devices are becoming more popular than computers by the day.