PowerShell recovery scripts using WBAdmin no longer work in Windows 11, but VHDX mounting offers a manual workaround for restoring files. I recently wrote an article in which I walked you through the ...

WhatsApp backups can grow fast, but you can shrink them by turning off video backups, deleting unnecessary media, moving files out of the WhatsApp folder, using a separate Google account for storage, ...

Windows Backup is a good app, botched by execution. It offers a seamless way to restore important things like files and system settings, and, more importantly, it can remember all your apps. However, ...

Microsoft is automatically turning on OneDrive Backup in new Windows 11 installations. Your files aren't stolen -- they've just been moved to a new folder and synced to the cloud. This article ...

A while back, I developed a PowerShell script that I use for creating air gapped backups of my file data. Even though I put a lot of effort into building this script and testing it over and over again ...

In our most recent Do You Use It? poll, we asked which backup methods you could use to recover your data and get back to work. Versioned backups—made with Time ...

In its free incarnation, MSP360 Desktop Backup is a worthwhile upgrade to Windows File History. However, the Pro version is subscription-only which makes it very pricey over time. I checked out both ...

Cloud backups feel like more work than they should be. Most of the tools I try either have busy dashboards, several running background services, or quiet nudges to a subscription system, and these ...

NTI Backup Pro 7 offers a lot of backup functionality, including file/folder, image, continuous, and cloud backup; network; and even optical disc support. But I found numerous annoying glitches and ...