Windows 8 and 10 have ‘File History backup’, which can be found in Settings > Update & Security > Backup on a Windows computer. Once you’ve got your backup from your Windows PC, you’ll be able to ...

The discontinuation of CrashPlan for Home on 22 October 2018 is coming soon (see “CrashPlan Discontinues Consumer Backups,” 22 August 2017), so I’ve been receiving questions about how best to restore ...

Russell Smith is a technology consultant and trainer specializing in management and security of Microsoft server and client technologies. He is a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with more than 15 ...

Though Windows 8 makes it easier to back up your settings using the SkyDrive cloud storage service, it actually doesn’t automatically back up the files on your computer. Instead, you’ll need to back ...

Reader Tom is dealing with this major hassle: When I switched from Windows XP to Windows 7, I was very careful to backup my entire computer to my laptop. After installing Windows 7, I found out that ...

Backing up your documents and other files in Windows is always advisable in case the originals ever get lost or corrupted. That's especially true for files that are important, sensitive, or ...

There’s some good news for IT managers deploying Windows Server 2008: Backup and Restore has been reworked in this edition to leverage the Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) and block-level transfers ...

Backing up your files is one of the most important things you can do to safeguard the data you create and store on your computer. To this end, Microsoft included a full backup and restore utility with ...

According to an EaseUS chat rep. with whom I just spoke, EaseUS TODO Backup (any version) cannot restore files and/or folders directly from tape. This person said that if you want to recover ...

If you've overwritten a Word file and haven't saved any older copies of the file under different file names, you can check to see whether Windows 7 has a previous version of the file to restore to.