GUIDES
Backup How-tos
Step-by-step guides to backing up and restoring phones, computers, files and more — practical instructions you can follow without any prior setup.
WEBSITE
Learning how to Backup your vBulletin and SQL Database
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 cert…
APPLE
How to Backup Files on Your PowerBook
The first thing we have to discuss within this article is what is a PowerBook? (However, since you stumbled upon this article you probably already know this) Mainly, the PowerBook is Apple’s replacement for the typical desktop computer. Frankly, I find that a laptop in my office is more useful than a full sized comp…
WINDOWS
How to backup before using CCleaner
Back in the old days data was not as hard to preserve, however hard to distribute. Nevertheless, if papers were stored at the right temperature and written with the right pen, there would not be the problem of data loss but if hazards should occur (fire, flood etc). Nowadays, things are a bit more different – in oth…
MYSQL
Useful tips about How to backup Drupal installation
Drupal is one of the big three CMS. Together with WordPress and Joomla offers a complete solution to build a working website in a few hours with minimum knowledge about PHP, HTML or CSS. If you already run a few Drupal powered websites, you should think about its backups. Beware of hackers, server failures or your o…
LINUX
Linux Backup: Hard Disk Clone with "dd"
Most of Windows users may know "Norton Ghost". Norton Ghost is a backup software for hard disks. It can backup a whole hard disk or a partition to an image file. Also, Norton Ghost can copy all the contents from a hard disk to another exactly. However, Norton Ghost is a Windows software, users on other operating system (such as Linux) can not enjoy its powerful function. Fortunately, most of Unix/Linux operating system provides a command line whose function is similar to Norton Ghost, it is called "dd".
GOOGLE CHROME
How to backup Google Chrome
Google Chrome is a new web browser developed by Google. Its interface is very clean and simple but it runs very fast. Google Chrome Backup is a small utility for backing up Chrome's profiles. A profile contains the bookmarks, history, passwords and your own settings. If you want to reinstall the operating system but you don't want to lose your Chrome information, you should backup the profile in advance.
WEBSITE
Two ways to Backing up WordPress
If you are a serious blogger, you must know WordPress. WordPress is the most popular blogging tools all over the world. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL database to store the articles and the comments, etc. More and more people use WordPress to build their own blogs. If you don't like your hosting company and want to buy another one, first you need to backup all articles in your WordPress. In this article I will show you two ways to backup your articles in WordPress.
WINDOWS
Backing up and Restoring Registry in Windows
Windows registry maintains lots of information about your operating system. For example, it records the installed software, whether or not the CDROM can play automatically, etc. Many softwares add some information into the registry during their installation, or change some items. Sometimes it will cause some problem…
WINDOWS
Double Driver: Backing up drivers
What should you do after installing Windows operating system? I guess the answer is to install a variety of drivers, especially for the old version of Windows. Video card, sound card, wireless network card, micro-camera... All need their own drivers so then can work. Obviously it is a very dirty work. If a software utility can backup the drivers when the system is well, and reinstall all the drivers after reinstalling the operating system, the world would become better.
LINUX
Backing Up Files with "rsync" (for Linux users)
"rsync" is a simple but powerful backup utility in Linux. Although the traditional archive tool "tar" can make a backup, "rsync" supports more functions, for example, saving the backup on a remote machine. For incremental backups, rsync provides a better method than "tar".
LINUX
How to Backup Your Files Automatically (for Linux users)
In the two previous articles I introduced two common used utilities in Linux operating system, tar and cron. "tar" is used for creating archive files and "cron" is a time-based scheduling utility. In this article, I will combine "tar" with "cron" to solve the problem: how to backup your files automatically?
How these backup guides work
Each guide walks through one task: what to back up, which tool to use, and how to check that the copy actually restores. Topics range from Windows, macOS and Linux to Android and iPhone, plus photos, email, databases and websites.