backups
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How to Back up Your iPhone Without Using iCloud
Before you get the new iPhone, it’s important to backup your existing iPhone handset. Here’s how to do that without using Apple’s iCloud.
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I Just Learned The Backup Lesson The Hard Way
Last week, I had a key piece of hardware, my smartphone, fail. When the device died I was annoyed but figured I had a backup I could fall back to. It turns out the plan I had in place wasn’t there, leaving me with a bunch of lost data.
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Warning: Your Android Google Drive Backups Can ‘Expire’, Leading Google To Aggressively Delete Them
Backups are wonderful. They provide peace of mind, a way to protect your future self from potential misery. Unless, of course, those backups get deleted with almost no warning, kind of like what Google will do for your Android device if you don’t use it for a couple of months.
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The Hard Drives Most (and Least) Likely To Fail, According To Backblaze
backup service Backblaze takes a look at failure rates amongst the hard drives in its data centres. This year’s no different, and they have got all kinds of stats for all kinds of drive.