Cloud Storage Buzz

Category: Tips

  • How to Use MEGA as a Dirt Cheap Backup Solution

    MEGA offers a generous 50GB of free cloud storage and it can be a very handy service to upload files to and to use as a sync service, but it lacks the ability to be used as a backup service. Wouldn’t it be great if you could use that free space from MEGA to help…

  • Symbolic Linking with Game Save Manager

    The symbolic link function can be incredibly helpful when it comes to keeping track of all your game files and saves. Using GameSave Manager, not only can you use symbolic links to keep save data in cloud storage, you can even use it to move game files to another hard drive or partition. The Sync…

  • Restoring Files with GameSave Manager

    If you remember last week, I went over how to use GameSave Manager to backup your game files and any software you might use with gaming. Now say some of your files have been corrupted or you had to format your hard-drive – something has happened that made you lose your precious game files. As…

  • Top Dropbox Alternatives for 2023

    It has been awhile since I have written a post about alternatives to Dropbox so I thought it might be a good time to take another look at the competition that has heated up around cloud storage. Looking back through the archives there was a post in 2011 looking at a few of the alternatives…

  • Backing Up Game Files with GameSave Manager

    It can be heart-wrenching to lose your game saves. Hundreds of hours lost to the ether! And since games use a variety of different file paths to save your progress, it can be difficult and tedious to track down all of your save files so you can back them up. GameSave Manager deals with both…

  • How To NSA Proof Your Cloud Storage and Backup

    If you dislike the idea of the possibility that some government agency, like the NSA or any of the Five Eyes snooping on the data you save in the cloud or even just to keep your data safe from any number of hackers and malware out there then there are steps you can take to…

  • Backup Rule of Three or the Backup 3-2-1 Rule

    I find it surprising that Cloud Storage Buzz, has been online in some form since January 2009, and somehow we have never talked about the computer backup rule of three. I don’t know why we never talked about it, perhaps because we always just assumed that people know these things, but we all know about…

  • 9 More Cloud Storage Managers

    When the original post 10 Cloud Storage Managers was written back in 2013 there were only those 10 cloud storage managers around. Since then the market has grown considerably and now not only have desktop cloud storage managers but you also have dedicated cloud storage managers just for your Andoid or iOS device. Here is…

  • 10 Cloud Website Backup Services

    In my day job I spend a lot of hours working on websites for clients of all sizes, on web hosts of all kinds from shared hosting accounts on services like Hostgator and WP Engine to RackSpace cloud servers to dedicated servers hosted at various data centers around the world. The one thing I have…

  • The Fappening, The Snappening and 5 Tips to Stay Safe in the Cloud

    There has been a lot of news since the end of August about all of the leaked celebrity photos, often called the fappening, and most recently the news of a huge collection of photos leaked from Snapchat, often called the snappening. It is particularly worrisome that these events have occurred, not only from the perspective…