Backup How-tos

As your websites grow, there is a time to look around for a dedicated or VPS server. Today’s Linux distributions are easy to manage and have many administration tools. If you do not want to pay for solutions like cPanel or Plesk, you can use ISPConfig together with Webmin for setting up a scheduled backup of your websites.

Sometimes the backup functionality built in Apple iTunes is not welcome when you connect your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad to the computer. In this case you will find useful small app which is able to completely turn off syncing and backup in iTunes.

Apple iPad, the tablet and nice piece of designer work. This extremely addictive tablet is a computer like any other in its basics. This means it can crash one day (is there anyone with broken down iPad?). So you should be sure all your data from the iPad are backed up. The other reason for Apple iPad backup is saving your apps which you have paid for. Fortunately, iPad backup is very easy to do.

Acronis True Image Home 2010 comes with a new feature saving your data to a secured online storage. This nice backup imaging software extends its functionality and starts to be a competitor in online backup services. Moreover, there is also new product Acronis Backup and Security which offers backup functionality together with a firewall and antivirus from BitDefender. So it targets the same users as Norton 360 from Symantec.

Lenovo IdeaPad Y550 is a nice laptop for home use at first. It is good for movie watching, games playing, internet browsing and so. But this article is not a review of IdeaPad Y550. I would like to share a few information about the software equipment of this Lenovo’s laptop, especially how it do backups of your data and restores them if needed.

Why you should backup registry? Every time you install a new application or game to your computer you risk. You risk the incompatibility with the current registry keys made by other applications. The same applies for running some cleaning software. Since the registry backup is very easy in Windows 7, you are a step away from keeping your system in a good condition.

You just bought your new Nokia phone. Now you will start taking photos and videos, you will create some new contacts and calendar events. If you will lose the phone, you will lose all this data - and it could be very annoying. However there is a solution how to prevent the loss of contacts, messages, music, photos or videos. The solution calls Nokia PC Suite and I will show you how to work with this software together with Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone.

Whenever we want to format our hard drive, or we change computers or we simply want to reinstall our operating system, we lose our favorites and bookmarks and it can become rather frustrating. Personally, I have been backing up favorites since 2002 and you can notice I have almost 7 years old bookmarks (and most of them are still useful).

There are plenty of backup software for Windows. We can use simple freeware backup applications for backing up the files or complete backup solutions to create different backup types of whole disc partition. What does the Windows 7 operating system offer?

Backup is very important especially if you are the administrator of an important website. In case of a catastrophe, all the content of your website will be removed, therefore all that you and your users have worked on for a given period can be considered lost. Since backup is very important in order to assure a certain degree of peace of mind, within the article we shall discuss about how to backup your vBulletin database, and how to backup your SQL database.