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World Backup Day 2013: Don't be an April Fool!

by Steven Sande (Mar 31st, 2013)

Today is World Backup Day 2013, the day we (and other technology sites) try to implore our readers to make sure that they back up their data early and often. Believe it or not, as much as we hammer on the topic of backing up data, there are still a lot of people who just don't pay attention ...

World Backup Day: 1 TB hard drive giveaway from OWC

by Michael Rose (Mar 31st, 2011)

As the first World Backup Day winds down, we've got one last giveaway, but it's a doozy. If you've followed our urgent pleas for better backup behavior today, your patience may now be rewarded. Whether you back up to the cloud, to a local drive or RAID array, or to a stack of CD-Rs, spare a few ...

World Backup Day: Ad-hoc backups to the cloud & more giveaways

by Michael Rose (Mar 31st, 2011)

Happy World Backup Day! The only safe way forward is to back up; that's why we've joined the cause for data saving with tips, techniques and giveaways all day today. As Steve mentioned earlier today, there are lots of cloud-based backup services eager to help you protect your data while solving ...

World Backup Day: Turn, turn, turn + more giveaways

by Michael Rose (Mar 31st, 2011)

Happy World Backup Day! We can't really emphasize this strongly enough: you need good backups, and you need them now. That's why we've joined the cause for data saving with tips, techniques and giveaways all day today. For Mac users running Leopard or Snow Leopard (10.5 or 10.6), the good news ...

World Backup Day: Mozy app puts backed-up files at your fingertips

by Steven Sande (Mar 31st, 2011)

Here's another product for World Backup Day. Mozy, a well-respected and veteran cloud backup solution for Mac and PC, has delivered Mozy to the App Store. This app, which is a free download that works with any iOS device, gives you access to all of those files from your computer that have been ...

World Backup Day: giveways, tips and more

by Michael Rose (Mar 31st, 2011)

Trust the Reddit community to come up with cool, constructive ideas amidst the links to silly images. Today, March 31, is World Backup Day, mostly because some Redditors thought it would be a good idea to remind everyone that hard drives are not, in fact, made from wonderflonium; they fail, and ...