Once again SpaceRex has created and informative video explaining how to backup your Synology network attached storage (NAS) to an external USB hard drive using the Synology Hyper Backup application ...

You can format an external drive quickly and easily in Windows, without the need of any third-party tools. But before you format your USB drive, you need to consider which file system to use. File ...

I've made the long overdue decision to keep backups on an external USB drive, but should I go with NTFS or exFAT for the drive? We have an all Windows household here, and although I fiddle with Linux ...

Losing access to digital photos and documents can be life-altering, so having backups is crucial. VeraCrypt is a versatile encryption tool for creating secure backups on external drives. Safeguard ...

Q: At least once a week I do a backup to an external hard drive, a Western Digital My Passport Ultra. I usually shut off the router, thereby disconnecting the computer from the internet, before ...

an external drive to recover with connotes a bootable drive, while a backup drive is just formatted partition(s). effectively, you need to build an OS disk with recovery tools, in order to have a ...

This is the third post in a series of posts describing a variety of home backup strategies and options. Now things start to get more interesting and viable. External drive backup has been the primary ...