Topic: Backup – Ctrl blog

How to enable file versioning on Windows

2021-10-15T02:09:00Z

Windows comes with many great built-in tools that, unfortunately, are hard to discover and even harder to use. One of these is its built-in file versioning tool called File History. Once set up, it can keep copies of old versions of all your files and documents. It can be incredibly useful to restore a previous version of a file or a folder after you’ve made an accidental change or deletion.

Your web browsers are slowing down your Time Machine backups

2019-02-22T09:42:00Z

You probably use your web browser more than any other application on your Mac and it’s causing slow Time Machine backups that fill up with non-essential files.

Reviewed options for backing up to Backblaze B2 with Window Backup

2018-05-21T22:08:00Z

I’ve reviewed the different possible options for backing up your Windows 10 computer with Windows Backup (formerly known as File History) to the ultra-cheap backup storage provider Backblaze B2. The software required to do this isn’t quite there yet, but you still have some options.

How to back up Flatpak user-data and apps

2018-02-26T13:37:00Z

You’ll probably want to make some changes to your home directory backup script after adopting and installing a few Flatpak applications. Here are the things you’ll need to think about.

Flatpak, Steam Cloud, XDG Base, and why Linux doesn’t sync progress

2018-02-05T15:19:00Z

If you’ve installed Steam on Linux through Flathub, chances are that Steam Auto-Cloud — Steam’s free game progress synchronization service — won’t work for many of your games that are built with the markets most popular game engines. I’ve dug into why it isn’t working, and discuss two possible solutions to fix the problem.