The new File History feature in Windows 8 can automatically back up your documents, music, pictures, and other personal files. Lance Whitney Contributing Writer Lance Whitney is a freelance technology ...

Learn how to back up your computer automatically with Windows, OneDrive, and third-party tools while keeping data secure, organized, and easy to restore.

Imagine your documents, photos, videos, and other files are gone forever by sudden system crashes or storage device failures. Quite scary, right? However, to prevent this from happening, Microsoft has ...

Windows 10 includes an enhanced version of the backup tools introduced in Windows 8/8.1. This set of features, called File History, is a major change from the image-based Windows 7 backup program.

The Android backup system enables Android users to back up and restore data on their devices. There are several built-in ways to do this; you can use the Auto Backup for Apps, which sends your app ...

Learn how to backup data safely in 2026 using the 3‑2‑1 backup rule, protecting files with multiple copies, media types, and ...

Though Google Takeout doesn’t sound like software, actually, it is. It’s a special way of exporting your data from many Google apps. For instance, you can export notes and lists from Google Assistant ...

Oddly enough, one of the best ways to back up your data to an external hard drive comes from a cloud storage company. I’m referring to iDrive, which offers a free local backup utility inside of its ...

If you often play games on your computer, you should check out Game Backup Monitor. It will help you automatically back up the configuration files of your games. It is a free and open-source software ...

Microsoft will add automatic local backups to OneNote on iOS in March 2026, improving recovery but raising new data security ...

Microsoft has been pushing Windows users to conform to the operating system in the way they intend or, as the setup states, in the way the company "recommends." To achieve this goal, Microsoft has ...