Back up, Back up, Back up. You might feel like we are a broken record on this topic, but we just can’t say enough about how important this crucial step is with your data. Sadly, all too often customers forget about this step, and just like a car, they break down at least opportune times.
Over the years we have had the unfortunate job of telling more than one parent their children’s photos are lost or a student their last six months of work is gone.
Drive failures can’t be prevented, but what you can prevent is the loss of your data; Apple makes it incredibly simple to get do. Time Machine is Apple’s built-in backup software, and it’s saved my data twice over the years! Many customers still don’t utilize this software and I believe it’s because so many assume it’s complicated.
Time Machine truly takes about 5 minutes to set up, and once it’s running, will continuously back up all your files and programs (without doing a thing on your part).
Should tragedy strike and your drive fails, you just have to plug the backup drive into the new computer or your old computer with the new internal hard drive installed.
In no time, you’re back up and running like nothing ever happened!