Tag: Backup

Backing Up Your Mac – Book Review

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You’ve heard it time and time again: backup, backup, backup. Updating software? Backup first. Installing a new hard drive? Backup first. Sounds simply enough, but how many of us are really doing it, or if we are backing up, how many of us are doing it correctly? Never fear, Joe Kissell is here to help us with his latest book, Backing Up Your Mac.

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Shirt Pocket SuperDuper! – Review

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Super Duper! is the highly acclaimed program that allows you to easily create bootable backups. The straight forward user interface makes it easy for novice to professional to automatically create a cloned backup of your computer.

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Seagate Central – Review

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Are you worried about your documents, precious photos, music library, and data stored in The Cloud? Ever thought about how secure your personal information is when it is all sitting in a data center somewhere? Instead of trusting your stuff to someone else’s cloud, how about putting it in your own cloud?

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2012 Holiday Gift Guide for Techies – Nemo Memo

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If you are reading this and you are not fully backed up using Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper, stop immediately and order a new external multi-interface bus-powered backup drive or two. Keep one drive handy for daily updates, and the other offsite for safety and security. Email the G-Men on the MyMac Podcast if you need advice on how to use Time Machine and the other two backup applications.

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LaCie Slim SSD P’9223 Drive – Review

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Sleek, speedy and gorgeous. No, not a gazelle—it’s the P’9223 Slim SSD external hard drive from LaCie. The Porsche Design enclosure measures a tidy 5″ by 3″ and is only 7/16″ thin; thinner than a MacBook Air. The case is solid aluminum and feels satisfyingly substantial. Apart from a razor thin slit for the indicator light and a USB port, the case is sleekly clean.

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The Guardian MAXimus mini – Review

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Are you backing up? Do you have enough storage for your laptop, or your Macintosh computer? How about portable storage? Can you move your storage around if you need to?

I have a solution for all of these and it it is called the NewerTech Guardian MAXimus mini (Abbriviated here as GMM) from NewerTechnology.

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Get Backup 2.2.5 – Review

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As its name imply, Get Backup is a backup program. But it also serves a dual role as a sync application. Is it worth your time and money? New MyMac.com contributor Steve Hammond takes a look!

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Review – Carbon Copy Cloner & SuperDuper

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Being short on coin is no longer a valid excuse for not backing up regularly. Carbon Copy Cloner from Bombich Software and SuperDuper from Shirt Pocket Software are two inexpensive but capable backup utilities that will help you keep more of your cash—and all of your data.

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Backup Automator Action

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Say you’re working on a long-term project in which you’re creating and saving a number of different files over time, and you want to make sure you have those files copied to a back up source after you’ve saved them to a specified folder. Well, if you don’t already have a backup system in place to do this, you can create backup folder in less than ten minutes by following the steps below.

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