There’s nothing inherently wrong with Dropbox, Google Drive, or whatever popular service you use to back files up to the cloud and keep them synchronized between your multiple desktops and laptops.

Synology BeeDrive is a subscription-free cloud storage alternative. This portable SSD automates backups and syncs files ...

Call me a data-hoarding snob if you must, but I’ll always stand by the plethora of NAS-centric services in my arsenal. My Proxmox Backup Server reduces my paranoia by creating regular backups of my ...

Google announced its plans to transition users of its consumer file syncing desktop service, Backup and Sync, onto a new unified app that both consumers and business clients can use called Drive for ...

Taking back ownership of your data is rough. I’ve been trying to de-Google my life for almost a year, and I still haven’t mastered it. I still need my Google account and Gmail address to use my ...

To sync files between two computers, you must connect both to the same network and make sure you've set the correct installation options for each computer. The best way to do this is to uninstall ...

Here's how to automatically or manually back up your data, and then restore it on your Mac using Apple's Time Machine feature. Trying to figure out how to send a large file to someone? Gmail and Yahoo ...

The title of this post is only slightly misleading, as I recently built a "Mac" using off-the-shelf PC parts. I also have a 4 year old MacBook Pro (2.2GHz) which is my main machine that I actually use ...

Last time, we saw why WAN Optimization won over WAFS. This time we’ll take a look at how distributed replicated file services compared to WAN Optimization as alternatives looking backwards, as well as ...

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