Backup How-tos

You just bought your new Nokia phone. Now you will start taking photos and videos, you will create some new contacts and calendar events. If you will lose the phone, you will lose all this data - and it could be very annoying. However there is a solution how to prevent the loss of contacts, messages, music, photos or videos. The solution calls Nokia PC Suite and I will show you how to work with this software together with Nokia 5310 XpressMusic phone.

Whenever we want to format our hard drive, or we change computers or we simply want to reinstall our operating system, we lose our favorites and bookmarks and it can become rather frustrating. Personally, I have been backing up favorites since 2002 and you can notice I have almost 7 years old bookmarks (and most of them are still useful).

There are plenty of backup software for Windows. We can use simple freeware backup applications for backing up the files or complete backup solutions to create different backup types of whole disc partition. What does the Windows 7 operating system offer?

Backup is very important especially if you are the administrator of an important website. In case of a catastrophe, all the content of your website will be removed, therefore all that you and your users have worked on for a given period can be considered lost. Since backup is very important in order to assure a certain degree of peace of mind, within the article we shall discuss about how to backup your vBulletin database, and how to backup your SQL database.

The first thing we have to discuss within this article is what is a PowerBook? (However, since you stumbled upon this article you probably already know this) Mainly, the PowerBook is Apple’s replacement for the typical desktop computer. Frankly, I find that a laptop in my office is more useful than a full sized computer because it takes less space and if it is truly important, I can carry it out at any time and finish my work.

Back in the old days data was not as hard to preserve, however hard to distribute. Nevertheless, if papers were stored at the right temperature and written with the right pen, there would not be the problem of data loss but if hazards should occur (fire, flood etc). Nowadays, things are a bit more different – in other words, data can be easily modified under the action of viruses, worms, remote access and so on.

Drupal is one of the big three CMS. Together with WordPress and Joomla offers a complete solution to build a working website in a few hours with minimum knowledge about PHP, HTML or CSS. If you already run a few Drupal powered websites, you should think about its backups. Beware of hackers, server failures or your own errors.

Most of Windows users may know "Norton Ghost". Norton Ghost is a backup software for hard disks. It can backup a whole hard disk or a partition to an image file. Also, Norton Ghost can copy all the contents from a hard disk to another exactly. However, Norton Ghost is a Windows software, users on other operating system (such as Linux) can not enjoy its powerful function. Fortunately, most of Unix/Linux operating system provides a command line whose function is similar to Norton Ghost, it is called "dd".

Google Chrome is a new web browser developed by Google. Its interface is very clean and simple but it runs very fast. Google Chrome Backup is a small utility for backing up Chrome's profiles. A profile contains the bookmarks, history, passwords and your own settings. If you want to reinstall the operating system but you don't want to lose your Chrome information, you should backup the profile in advance.

If you are a serious blogger, you must know WordPress. WordPress is the most popular blogging tools all over the world. It is written in PHP and uses MySQL database to store the articles and the comments, etc. More and more people use WordPress to build their own blogs. If you don't like your hosting company and want to buy another one, first you need to backup all articles in your WordPress. In this article I will show you two ways to backup your articles in WordPress.