Backup News and Articles

Security Software

Surprisingly, 87% of people back up their data, but data loss accidents persist

Bottom line: To commemorate World Backup Day on March 31 – just one day before April Fool's Day – Western Digital commissioned a survey of 6,118 people across 10 countries, conducted a month ago, to better understand their backup practices. The findings revealed that 87 percent of respondents do back up their data, either manually or automatically. Their main motivations include fear of losing important files (83 percent), the need to free up device space (67 percent), and protection against cyber threats (42 percent).

Full story By Skye Jacobs, March 26, 2025, 5:20 PM 7 comments

The Web Industry

European Central Bank system crash delayed salaries and welfare funds across Europe

The ECB is investigating why its backup systems didn't kick in

By Skye Jacobs, March 10, 2025, 6:58 AM

Failover vs. Failback: Two Disaster Recovery Methods

FEATURE By Pure Storage, December 4, 2024, 8:10 AM TechSpot Tech Culture

A key distinction in the realm of disaster recovery is the one between failover and failback. Both terms describe two sides of the same coin, complementary processes that are often brought together.

Security The Web

Indonesia just realized it has no backups after data centers are hit with ransomware

Facepalm: It's bad enough when companies don't back up their data, but it's even worse when a country's government ignores this basic rule. It's been revealed that Indonesia has no data backups, which is doubly problematic as it's recently been hit with a ransomware attack.

Full story By Rob Thubron, July 2, 2024, 5:16 AM

Software Microsoft

Microsoft is pushing OneDrive backups and integration in new Windows 11 setup by default

Classic Microsoft: OneDrive is Microsoft's cloud storage and file-syncing solution that's baked directly into Windows. However, over time the tool has become increasingly annoying and troublesome, and now Redmond seems willing to make it more so by making OneDrive an opt-out feature.

Full story By Alfonso Maruccia, June 25, 2024, 2:44 PM 16 comments

The Web Software

Google discloses how they mistakenly erased $135 billion cloud customer account

Facepalm: One of Google Cloud's worst nightmares came true in early May, when an embarrassing snafu completely erased a customer's account and data backups. The unlucky victim was Australian pension fund UniSuper, which manages a staggering $135 billion in assets for over 600,000 members. The pension fund was essentially frozen for two weeks, unable to fully operate while it scrambled to recover from third-party backups.

Full story By Zo Ahmed, May 31, 2024, 8:15 AM 16 comments

Hardware Industry

Spectra Cube offers up to 75 petabytes of tape-based, cloud-optimized storage capacity

An easy-to-use, cost-cutting cold storage solution for enterprises and cloud providers

By Alfonso Maruccia, April 15, 2024, 8:47 AM

How to Upgrade Your SSD (and Retain All Data)

FEATURE By Nick Evanson, July 18, 2023, 6:03 AM TechSpot Software

Looking to upgrade your computer's SSD without having to reinstall Windows and all your apps? We've got you covered with this guide to cloning a boot drive.

How to Get Windows to Keep Previous Copies of Your Files

FEATURE By Dan Croutch, February 16, 2023, 6:16 AM TechSpot Software

Get peace of mind by automating your backups with this Windows trick. Check out how File History remembers to keep backups so you don't have to.

Security Apple

Users claim Windows iCloud app bug is inserting images and videos from other people into their library

Syncing videos results in a corrupted file that displays random images from unknown sources

By Cal Jeffrey, November 22, 2022, 12:33 PM

Software Download of the Week

GoodSync can automate backups to external or remote drives for free

GoodSync allows you to sync and backup your files between PCs, drives, or remotely through different secure protocols free of charge. It works on Windows, Mac, Linux and mobile.

By Ivan Franco, July 6, 2022, 1:07 PM

How to Backup Your Gmail Account

FEATURE By Humphrey Menge and Ivan Franco, May 5, 2022, 6:12 AM TechSpot Software

Data loss is rampant these days and a good backup strategy can save you from losing access to important information. In this guide, we explore how to export and download Gmail emails for safekeeping.

Hardware Security

Magnetic storage sees record-breaking sales as ransomware attacks increase

Data backed up to tape is hard for hackers to steal or ransom

By Cal Jeffrey, April 25, 2022, 5:26 PM 33 comments

Software Download of the Week

Use FBackup to automate backups of your important files

FBackup can make exact copies of your important files to network locations, external drives or the cloud, like Google Drive or Dropbox.

By Ivan Franco, April 7, 2022, 7:37 AM

Software Download of the Week

Disk Drill is a handy utility that lets you recover deleted files

With the free version of Disk Drill, you can recover up to 500MB of lost data from any disk-based drive. It lets you preview all the recoverable items and create a backup of a failing disk. It is available for Windows and macOS.

By Ivan Franco, March 4, 2022, 5:32 PM

Software Tech Culture

Japanese university loses 77TB of research data following a buggy software update

34 million files got deleted from Kyoto university's supercomputer due to a backup error

By Humza Aamir, January 3, 2022, 6:15 AM 18 comments

Download of the Week Software

Store your files in the cloud or across your devices with Dropbox

With 2GB of free storage, Dropbox allows you to back up and sync your files, plus access them across your devices or the Dropbox website. It is compatible with Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.

By Ivan Franco, December 20, 2021, 1:29 PM

5 Signs Your Storage Drive is About to Fail

FEATURE By Nick Evanson, December 9, 2021, 9:10 AM TechSpot Hardware

#ThrowBackThursday Like all electronic devices, PCs don't last forever, and the parts inside them will eventually fail. While it's easy to replace a broken device, the same can't be said for the data stored in your machine.