Both have their very strong (and polite) advocates. I am trying to decide between the two, and right now leaning toward Crashplan even though Backblaze is reported to be more "Mac friendly". I ...

Cloud-based backup services come as close as you can get to making this necessary, but oh-so-avoidable chore hassle-free. Even if you already back up your data to an external hard drive, you need a ...

Here's the bulleted list of my setup. * I have a Synology NAS DS418play with 4x1TB drives in it. * All of the devices in my house back up to the Synology. I'm an Apple guy and my device backups all ...

There are two types of hard drives: those about to fail, and those that will fail eventually. Plan accordingly. I learned this in my great photo catastrophe of 2012. On vacation in Italy with a ...

I got an email from a reader recently about backing up a computer. He was lamenting about the demise of CrashPlan’s cloud backup service for home users. I’ve written about online backup service ...

Early this year, online backup service Backblaze bumped the price of its monthly plan from $5 to $6, with annual and bi-annual plans rising commensurately (see “Backblaze Increases Pricing for ...