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Top 7 Mac Backup Blog Posts

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Having an offsite backup is like having a safe deposit box at the bank. Image by -JvL- from Flickr Creative Commons.
Having an offsite backup is like having a safe deposit box at the bank. Image by -JvL- from Flickr Creative Commons.

Backing up your Mac is so important that today we’re giving you our top 7 posts on the hows and whys of Mac backups.

  1. 5 tips on backing up your Mac These tips are useful for anyone on a Mac, and cover local as well as cloud backup.
  2. Why Did My Hard Drive Die? The simple facts behind the fragility of the hard drive in your Mac (or any computer, really).
  3. Is your Time Machine really backing up your Mac? You’ve got Time Machine for local backup. Here’s how to check that it’s doing its job.
  4. Mac Backup to the Cloud Why we like CrashPlan and CrashPlan Pro for cloud backup (backup to a different location than your computer).
  5. Why does CrashPlan take so long to back up? Offsite backups, also known as Cloud backups, often take awhile for the initial backup to complete. Why is that? This post tells you.
  6. How to back up your iPhoto images Photos are often the most irreplaceable of all the things on our Macs. Here’s how to back up just your photos.
  7. How to Make a Clone of Your Mac Sometimes it’s useful to have a snapshot of your Mac. Here’s one way to do it.

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  • How to migrate from your old Mac to a 12-inch MacBook March 22, 2018 Apple's 12-inch MacBook is svelte and weights only 2 pounds. It also presents some challenges when migrating your data directly from another Mac. All other Mac models since 2011 have Thunderbolt capability, meaning you can attach a Thunderbolt cable between the two computers, put the older computer into Target Disk Mode, and then use Migration Assistant on the new computer, which will see the old computer's drive and copy from…

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Related Posts

  • Snow Leopard in Parallels Desktop June 11, 2020 This is a technical post on how to get the Snow Leopard OS running on a Mac in Parallels Desktop, so that older Apple software can be run on a newer Mac. It has been verified on Parallels 16.1.0. If you want our office to set this up for you (which we can do remotely), please email [email protected] to schedule an appointment. Background: Snow Leopard, aka Mac OS X 10.6,…
  • How to migrate from your old Mac to a 12-inch MacBook March 22, 2018 Apple's 12-inch MacBook is svelte and weights only 2 pounds. It also presents some challenges when migrating your data directly from another Mac. All other Mac models since 2011 have Thunderbolt capability, meaning you can attach a Thunderbolt cable between the two computers, put the older computer into Target Disk Mode, and then use Migration Assistant on the new computer, which will see the old computer's drive and copy from…

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