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 had my NAS for a couple years now, the backup software provided by it sucks royal balls. It's time I use some real backup software to backup my data. Any advice on an Open Source package to use?

PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Plakar, an open-source backup and restore platform, today announced the general availability of its first stable release, alongside a $3 million pre-seed funding round led by ...

Symantec Corp.’s storage arm, Veritas, announced today that it has combined its online storage management software with Citrix Systems Inc.’s Xen Hypervisor to develop an x86 server virtualization ...

Zmanda, Sunnyvale, Calif. company that offers open source backup and recovery software, said it has raised $8 million in a second round of funding. The backing is the latest in a string of investments ...

Perhaps the proprietary nature of most storage hardware is to blame, but we don’t often see open source and storage in the same sentence. That’s unfortunate, because bringing the low acquisition cost ...