You don’t want to think about backups: You want them to happen automatically, in the background, on all your computers. You want to access those backups from anywhere, from any device, from any ...

When it comes to computer maintenance, nothing is quite more important than backing up all of your data. It’s one of the most crucial things you need to do when it comes to maintaining your devices.

Cloud-based backup provider CrashPlan—which our friends at the Wirecutter recommended in 2015—announced earlier this week that it was getting out of the consumer backup game to focus on its enterprise ...

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 ...

If you don’t back up your Mac’s files, then it’s a matter of when—not if—you’ll lose data that’s precious to you. Apple already robbed Mac users of any excuse not to back up regularly with Time ...

I’m thrilled to welcome Backblaze as our latest long-term sponsor. Backblaze has been my online backup service of choice for the past few years, and I’m more than happy to recommend the company, ...

I am probably not the only one receiving an email from Code42 today about the fact that CrashPlan for Home is going to go away. Currently, I back up eight computers holding over 5 TB of data for ...

Code42, the company behind CrashPlan, just announced that it would stop selling home subscriptions in order to focus on business and education clients. CrashPlan has been a popular cloud backup ...

It has been a few years since a decision by a major tech company last turned me into a green rage monster, but it just happened again. Code42 Software has announced that it’s discontinuing its ...

Editor’s note: On August 21, 2017, Code42 announced that it is no longer offering CrashPlan for Home. The company now focuses on business customers. As an enthusiastic evangelist for backups, I ...