Apple Backup

Apple has always prided itself on being one of the most secure and easy to use computers available for the consumer market and it’s mostly true, since it’s graphic user interface (or GUI) is very user friendly (not to discredit it’s cool look) and there are only a few virii that can actually infect a Mac filesystem, however it’s not all that secure when it comes to data loss as this can be caused by several things that go way beyond the manufacturer’s control.

Let’s say that you let your young niece to play online in your Mac and you suddenly see him with his childish look and a tear in his eye, worried as hell since he did something that couldn’t understand and something went wrong. Yes, he deleted something… or changed some settings and now your beautiful Mac is no longer responding. You try to stay cool and just reboot it, but then you see with your awe stricken face that it’s not booting as it should. If you know what he did, maybe you can fix it, but what if he doesn’t even remember exactly what he did… then my friend, you’re screwed.

That’s why no computer user should go to sleep without having some backup protection in place.

As a Mac user you can already benefit from Time Machine, which is Apple’s own backup tool and is available on Mac OS X Leopard and newer, however there are a lot of options to chose from, so if Time Machine seems to complicated or maybe too disk space demanding, you can always go for another choice.

The most important thing about backing up a Mac (as well as most computers) is to have it automated, which can be easily done using Mac’s cron tools, so that it doesn’t matter if you forget to update your backups, your Mac will do it for you. Also to keep the backup copies stored in an external drive or offsite location (online or offline) since having them in your own hard drive can prove to be the worst mistake when your hard drive fails.