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A hard drive can die at any time. Do you have a computer? Do you care about any of the files you’ve ever saved? Music you’ve bought from iTunes? Documents you’ve written? Pictures you’ve taken? At some point, you’re going to see this icon flashing when you turn on your Mac. (I don’t know what Windows PCs do these days for this. This icon means: My hard drive is dead. (Usually. I get emails from friends about once a month asking what this means, quickly followed by a sinking feeling that I need to tell you this, and you almost definitely don’t have a backup of anything, and you’re going to ask me about data recovery, and I’m going to need to tell you that it doesn’t usually work, and you’ve probably lost the photos from your great European vacation or your baby’s first steps or the last four years of your life. Here’s a quick primer on the reality of hard drives: A hard drive can die at any time.Hard drives die far more than any other component.Hard drives die especially frequently in laptops.

That’s it. How to remote backup and file sync with SugarSync. iPhone and iPod touch: About backups. Languages Learn how to use iCloud or iTunes to back up and restore the most important content on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Should I back up with iCloud or iTunes? Get help deciding whether to use iCloud or iTunes to back up the content on your iOS device.

Use iCloud iCloud Backup provides an easy and reliable backup solution for customers who want to back up their iOS devices wirelessly and automatically. Back up to iCloud If you're using iCloud, it can automatically back up your data if you've chosen this option. Tap Settings > iCloud > Storage & Backup. Turn on iCloud Backup if it's off. Restore from an iCloud backup If you have a new iOS device, or if you need to restore your iOS device to resolve an issue, follow these steps. Follow the initial steps in the iOS Setup Assistant (select your language, and so on).

You can restore a backup only by using the iOS Setup Assistant. Use iTunes You can use iTunes to back up and restore your content on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Back up. How to backup your Twitter archive. With the Twitter fail whale popping up all the time, you never know when something tragic might happen. No one want to lose all of their Twitter tweets, followers, or anything else for that matter. That’s why it’s a good idea to backup your Twitter archive on a regular basis in case of a Twitter mishap. As we all know, there has been numerous times in the past where users have lost followers, tweets, and DMs.

Fortunately, you can make sure this doesn’t happen to you by using one of the following methods to backup your Twitter archive. Tweetake Enter your Twitter username and password.Select what you’d like to backup (followers, favorites, DMs, friends, tweets, or everything).Click the “Get “˜em!” TweetBackup TwitterBackup Download and open the Java application.Once the window pops up, enter your Twitter username and password.In the ‘file name’ field you’ll need to enter the name that you’d like your file to be saved as. FriendBackup Click on the launch button. How to automatically save your work on a regular interval with E. How to download your Twitter archive with Tweet Scan. How to clone & copy your hard drive. One of the most annoying things about owning a computer is the maintenance.

It’s easily neglected. After all you don’t really notice the slow decline of your system’s performance, do you? But then again it’s a delight to work on a freshly installed machine, where everything is smooth and responds quickly. But customization is tedious. And when your hard drive decides to break spontaneously, time is something you won’t have for sure. For emergencies it’s better you have a data and a system backup available. EASEUS Todo Backup Backing up your data is one of those things in life that you really won’t understand until disaster strikes, by which time it’s too late. But take my advice, use this incredible free Easeus Todo Backup software and it’ll be so easy you won’t even have to think about it. Paragon’s Drive Backup Express (Windows) This software is the easy solution to clone your hard drive . I have previously written about Drive Backup Express and thoroughly explained how it works here.

How to clear space in your Gmail account. Are you about to exhaust all the free storage space in your Google mail account? Learn how to reclaim lost space by deleting all the space hogging file attachments from Gmail in 5 minutes. While Google does offer around 7.5 GB of free storage space on Gmail, you can quickly exhaust that limit if you are not regular about deleting email messages that include large attachments. Why Clear Space in your Gmail Account When you exhaust the allocated storage limit on your Gmail account, you won’t be able to compose and send new emails from Gmail unless you clear out some space by deleting old mails.

Going forward, all incoming messages will also get returned to the sender thus breaking your contact with the outside world. (Read more on Gmail Limits) Never Exceed your Mail Quota Again Once you run out of storage space on Gmail, there are two options – either purchase storage (at around $20 per 10 GB) or reclaim space on the Gmail hard drive by deleting large (and useless) emails. Dropbox. How to back up while you're away with IdleBackup. How to keep real-time backup with DocShield. How to synchronyse MS documents and Google Docs with DocSyncer. How to use VMWare to survive a computer crash. How to automatically back up your hard drive.