Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. Question: My backup laptop is essentially identical to my current laptop except it’s 1 year older. I presently XCOPY my ...

The Windows Backup app is a new addition to the already feature-rich suite of apps that allows you to configure backups for your files, settings, credentials, and apps to your OneDrive account. It is ...

Imagine your documents, photos, videos, and other files are gone forever by sudden system crashes or storage device failures. Quite scary, right? However, to prevent this from happening, Microsoft has ...

We all know we're supposed to back up our data; it's essential for peace of mind. But one copy of a file on your computer does not a backup make. Redundancy, people, redundancy! As the organizers of ...

A: I don’t know how to put this, William, other than to say that you are trying to solve a problem that you seem to have created yourself. In a way, I can understand your reluctance to use a cloud ...