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An email from the Google Drive Team dropped into my inbox earlier this week to let me know that from November any WhatsApp backups won't count against my storage quota on Google Drive. It's welcome news especially for heavy WhatsApp users with the basic 15 GB Drive allowance. Unaware that WhatsApp did backups? It's worth checking out as it's one
The cloud is definitely where it's at right now, but what if you don't like the idea the idea of Google, Dropbox et al looking after your data? Then you might be interested in a Pogoplug, which allows you to create your own cloud storage that's only limited by the size of the hard disk. A Pogoplug is a hardware
Having a good backup system both locally and offsite is important for anyone with a computer. Once you have decide to use a cloud backup the first problem you face is the overwhelming number of options. There are two broad category of backups, manual and automatic. Services like Dropbox or Google Drive are what I call manual backups, in that
Apple's Time Machine has been a lifesaver for many people, especially when they've accidentally deleted an important file. However, it doesn't protect against fire, flood or theft when everything is lost. Enter Dolly Drive, a Time Machine-compatible cloud-based backup service. Available as a subscription service based on data usage, Dolly Drive looks like another Time Machine target to OS X
Picture by Morio The Japanese Government is taking contingency planning to a whole new level by proposing to build a backup city for Tokyo. Situated 300 miles to the west of Tokyo on an old airport, it would have capacity for 50,000 residents and space for 200,000 workers. At the time of a disaster the capital would move to this
For several years, I've had an original Buffalo LinkStation NAS as my main fileserver. Being on 24x7, it's gone through several fans and at least one hard disk, but it's now time to retire it in favour of a LinkStation Duo which will give me more space, RAID capabilities and faster transfer speeds. Naturally, as my main fileserver, it's backed
We look at five online backup solutions to keep your data safe. Carbonite, MyPCbackup, Mozy, Dropbox and iBackup