The importance of backing up your files seems obvious, but choosing how gets complicated fast. The built-in Windows backup option is painfully basic, while decent software costs serious money.

I’ve replaced plenty of cloud tools with their self-hosted counterparts, but the most challenging yet satisfying transitions were the ones involving storage services. Sure, I had to put in extra ...

Seafile is a free open source, cross-platform, file-hosting software that can be used to store files on a central server & sync them with other PCs & mobile devices. If you’re looking for free hosting ...

It’s hard to find someone who is not using cloud storage services these days. If you are using Windows 11/10, OneDrive doesn’t need an introduction. It’s already tied to your Microsoft account and ...

One-way synchronization: You can now sync to a read-only file or folder (right-click the item in the Folders tab, open folder preferences, and click on the Advanced tab). This lets your team, family, ...

Perhaps the company's most important innovation since its co-founder Bram Cohen released the BitTorrent protocol in 2001, BitTorrent Sync has now entered public beta and is available to download. Sync ...

Jack Wallen shows you how to sync files across a network on Linux with a simple command line tool. With Linux there are so many ways to synchronize and/or backup files over a network. For many, rsync ...

Sync.com does what it says on the tin, syncing files across your devices. While it can be used as a backup app, it’s perhaps a little closer to Dropbox because it’s intended to carry files you can ...