Acronis, a maker of storage management products, on Tuesday launched a Linux-based restoration application and an update of its Windows-based server software. The True Image Server for Linux and ...

What you should back up depends on how you use your PC. As a rule, a regular backup of the home directories is sufficient. This protects against data loss—for example, if an important file is ...

Hard drives and SSDs have a habit of failing at inopportune moments (although when is a good time for storage to fail?), underscoring how important having a regular backup strategy is for keeping your ...

A quick review of past Linux Gazette articles and a search of the Web turn up hundreds of backup solutions. Many are aimed specifically at the backup function; others are aimed at the repair and ...

Until recently the extent of my backup efforts was to take the occasional CD copy of my home directory and keep copies of important files somewhere else, usually on another disk partition or a floppy ...