September 19, 2011
CrashPlan only backs up what is new since the last backup. So usually that doesn’t take long. But that first backup can take forever. Why does it take so long for CrashPlan to do the initial backup?
September 7, 2011
Sean Costello of Irongate just explained to us all of CrashPlan’s crazy editions. Here’s a summary. CrashPlan: free. Can back up to local drive, or another machine running CrashPlan or CrashPlan+. Only backs up once per day, rather than continuously like the other versions. The EULA specifies it’s for home (non-commercial) use only. Kind of [...]
June 15, 2011
You have an updated Time Machine backup but you can’t get the backup to restore to a new hard drive. Here are instructions on what to do.
June 3, 2011
Instructions for how to create a one-time snapshot copy of everything on your Mac.
November 11, 2010
SugarSync and Dropbox both perform a similar function: they both sync files between two computers by having a location in the cloud where files are stored and updated. What’s the difference between the two?
August 26, 2010
If you want to back up just your iPhoto images (your library) to an external source, such as a hard drive or CD/DVD, you need to know where to find them. Here’s what to do.
August 23, 2010
We’ve seen more than a few horror stories of people whose computer drives failed, and then they found out their Time Machine backups hadn’t been backing up in months! Time Machine is not infallible, it doesn’t work correctly 100% of the time. To prevent this from happening to you, check your Time Machine backup every [...]
August 7, 2010
Step by step instructions for backing up the Entourage email database on your Mac.
August 6, 2010
Instructions on the easiest way to use SugarSync to synchronize files between Mac computers.