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Google’s new Backup and Sync (15GB free; larger storage options available for a fee) software tries to leverage Google’s existing Google Drive and Google Photos products by adding a file-backup option ...

Note that Google doesn’t appear to be making any changes to the Drive service itself, just the apps. Google currently offers 15GB of online storage with Drive, and those files are accessible with any ...

Google’s Backup and Sync feature is now available, and it might save you a lot of time and frustration. Featured Video The feature allows users to store and sync everything on their computer to Google ...

Google's Backup and Sync app will let you save your entire system to Drive. Credit: AP/REX/Shutterstock Google is doing all of us a solid and giving everyone the chance to use its free cloud storage ...

Do you backup your files and photos on a regular basis? Most of us know that we should be backing up our data, but for one reason or another—usually the inconvenience of it all—we don't. That is like ...

Google today announced the launch of Backup and Sync, a new app for Macs and PCs that's designed to back up files and photos safely in Google Drive and Google Photos. The new app is meant to replace ...

Backing up means to manually or automatically copy files from one location to another, usually from one physical drive to another, although it could also be to an online location. Syncing means to ...