Backup
Dropbox Syncs and Backs Up Files Between Computers Instantaneously [Featured Download]
Windows/Mac only: Freeware application and web service Dropbox instantaneously backs up and syncs your files over the internet and to any computer. After you install the application, it will create a...
AceBackup Offers Local, Remote, and Secure File Backup [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Robust backup utility AceBackup offers a host of features missing in most freeware backup apps, like file versioning, secure FTP, file-specific encryption, Windows shell integration,...
Open standards drive growth of phone backup service provider
SIMchronise, a mobile technologies company based in the United Kingdom, recently launched a mobile data backup service called PhoneBackup.eu that is built on the Open Mobile Alliance's Data Synchronization and Device Management standard (a.k.a. SyncML).
Beware of Using Web Host Disk Space for File Backup [Backup]
Over two years ago in an article on how to automate your hard drive backups, we recommended FTP'ing your files to a cheap, roomy web hosting plan's server for off-site backup. But weblog Digital...
Flyback Updates with Better Interface, Easier Scheduling [Featured Linux Download]
Linux only: Flyback, the previously mentioned Linux backup utility that aims to mimic Mac OS X Leopard's Time Machine for set-and-forget usability, has a cutting-edge 0.5 version available in its...
Make a Master Information Document for Worst Case Scenarios [Emergency]
The Simple Dollar financial blog offers up a guide to creating a "Master Information Document"—a single piece of paper that's locked away securely, explained only to family and very close...
Indexing offline CD-ROM archives
Suppose you’ve been good (or sort of good anyway), and you have a huge stack of CD-ROMs (or DVDs) with backups and archives of your old files. Great. But how can you find anything? I solved this problem today by making an index of all the files stored on these disks using a few simple GNU command line tools.
Mozy Mac Client Final Release Available [Online Backup]
Mac only: Online backup service Mozy has released the final, 1.0 version of their Mac client, which doesn't have all the options that the PC side does, but still gets the job done. Choose which...
Sun+MySql: a new business strategy focused on proprietary software
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"...Marten Mickos has just acknowledge that I understood the slide quite correctly, and they will indeed develop new features in MySQL Enterprise (in 6.0), without making them available in MySQL Community. Hmm!"
Amic Email Backup Keeps Messages and Settings Intact [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Back up your messages and nearly everything else associated with an email account with Amic Email Backup, a free download for Windows. Amic only works with desktop-based mail clients...
Back Up and Reorder Your iGoogle Page [How To]
Google doesn't offer a drag-and-drop method of reordering the tabs on your personalized iGoogle page, but you can manually move the tabs using an XML backup tool provided on the settings page. The...
Python backup script for firebird
Here is an cron backup script written in python
Back Up While You're Away with IdleBackup [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Freeware utility IdleBackup automatically backs up your files while you're not using your computer. Choose the folder you want to back up and the destination—whether it's a thumb...
Use rsync for a simple incremental backup of a folder
rsync is a very useful and powerful program for doing incremental transfers of files, whether that is locally or remotely. It can, however, take a little while to familiarise yourself with how rsync works before you can get started with it however.
Keep Real-Time File Snapshots with DocShield [Featured Windows Download]
Windows only: Free snapshot backup utility DocShield provides a similar service to previously-mentioned FileHamster, but with a lot more control over how often, and how big, those backups should be....
