Backup News and Articles

To protect your data, you need to do more than schedule regular backups. Here are three often overlooked strategies that can help make your backups more accessible, secure, and reliable.

Under the right circumstances, apt-clone can be a simple option for cloning your Debian system.

If you need a cloudless solution for syncing data across multiple devices, Syncthing could be just the thing.

Linux Android Backup offers an open source solution to backing up the most important content from your Android devices in just a few steps.

The tools and strategies you use to back up files that are not being accessed won't work when you copy data that is currently in use by a busy application. This article explains the danger of employing common Linux utilities to back up living data and examines some alternatives.

A backup policy can protect your data from malware attacks and system crashes, but first you need to ensure that you are backing up uncorrupted data.

Shared hosting is the best way for first-time webmasters to get started. But what do you do about backup?

Timeshift lets users easily create, manage, and restore system snapshots.

The CYA script helps you back up system files, which you can then restore quickly in case of an emergency.

In Star Trek, the Borg adds individuals to its collective consciousness, an apt metaphor for any backup application that stores individual files in an archive. BorgBackup creates folder repositories for multiple archives, making it an especially befitting description of assimilation.