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What is online backup? Advantage and disadvantages of online backup.

Online Backup

What is online backup?
Online backup, also known as remote backup, is a method of offsite data storage in which files, folders, or the entire contents of a hard drive are regularly backed up on a remote server or computer with a network connection. A number of companies provide online backup services for subscribers whose computers [...]

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What is incremental backup?

Backup Archive Attribute

Incremental Backup
We have discussed full backup and differential backup before, today I’ll talk about Incremental Backup.
Firstly, open My Computer and a partition, then right-click any folder and choose “Properties”. In “General” tab, click “Advanced”, then below window would pop up.
This archive attribute means that this folder could be backed up or not. After full backup [...]

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What is differential backup?

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Differential Backup
Every backup software provides full backup features, but few backup software provide differential backup. Why some backup software doesn’t provide differential backup? This could be related to two parts, differential backup is more complex to design compared to full backup, so it is too difficult for the small companies. Another reason, due to the [...]

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Full backup – completely backup everything on your drive

What is Full Backup?
A full backup is a backup of every file on a file system, whether that file has changed or not.
Full backup alternatives
The alternatives to a full backup are incremental backup and differential backup.
When to choose full backup
It would be ideal to make full backups all the time, because they are the most [...]

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Top 5 free backup software

GFI free backup

Why you need to backup system and data?
Many personal computer users have the experience of system crash or data loss, for example, hardware conflict, bad ram, hard disk drives overload, viruses attack, software conflict, etc. If your system is crashed and then you will realize that you really need backup software after suffering the great [...]

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Windows 7 built-in Backup & Recovery Utility Overview

Windows 7 Backup & Recovery
Windows Backup allows you to make copies of data files and also create a system image which includes your system settings, programs and files. In Windows 7, you can choose your custom location for the data backup and whether or not to include the system image during backup.
The Backup and Restore [...]

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Is It Possible to Clone RAID Array in a Safe and Easy Way?

free RAID cloning software main window

Why do computer users need to clone RAID array, especially Windows server users need to do RAID cloning? Generally speaking, they need to clone RAID array regularly in order to upgrade disk or migrate data from small disk to a larger one. A typical example is that when the partitions on the hardware RAID runs [...]

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How to backup server 2008 with free Windows backup software

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On Feb 27th, 2008, Microsoft released the latest server operating system – Windows server 2008. Due to its new or enhanced features, for example, Server Manager, Powershell, WDS, ServerCore, BitLocker, RMS, RODC(Read Only Domain Controller), NAP(Network Access Protection), etc. More and more companies put their hands to migrate to Server 2008 from the old Server [...]

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Backup Windows 7 System Partition and Drive with Free System Backup Software

Folders created by Windows 7 system backup

Windows 7 was released with a built-in backup and restore feature. You can find this feature in “Control Panel\System and Security\Backup and Restore”, with which you can do Windows 7 system backup. In fact, Windows provide backup and restore feature in most editions, but few people like to use this function, because it is just [...]

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Free Windows Backup Software to Protect Windows System Data Loss

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More and more computer users know the importance of backup their systems, especially for Windows, because most of us know backup is better than recovery or reinstall Windows system. However, choosing reliable Windows backup software is the key point to protect your system and disk.
Free Windows backup software
Most of commercial backup software is much expensive [...]

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