12 Days of Backups: Day 1 – Time Machine
Our 12 Days of Backups series teaches you how to back up your Apple devices. Day 1 highlights using Time Machine for the Mac
Our 12 Days of Backups series teaches you how to back up your Apple devices. Day 1 highlights using Time Machine for the Mac
If you’re not making backups of the data on your Mac, you’re living dangerously, my friend. I don’t wish any of these scenarios on you, but it’s always possible that your computer could up and die on you, data could...
It’s March 31, which means it is World Backup Day. This observance is held each year to spotlight the importance of backups and remind people to make backups a habit. Backups are the only way to make sure that your important data is copied to at least one other location so that it is still accessible if your Mac, iPhone or iPad is damaged or lost. Every year, we celebrate World Backup Day here at The Rocket Yard by showing our readers just how easy it is to make backups on all of their Apple devices. If you’re not making regular backups, today’s the day that you should begin. Check out this informative video first, then follow our instructions to start making your backups.
Time Machine is certainly an easy-to-use app for backing up your data. It's free, and comes installed and ready to use with the Mac OS. In many of our Rocket Yard guides, we’ve often suggested that you perform a backup...
World Backup Day is here again! Held the day before April Fool's Day, World Backup Day is a worldwide effort to remind computer users of the importance of making regular backups. Today and throughout the month of April, the Rocket...
Backing up your Mac can be a very easy process. Pick a drive to use for your backups, turn on Time Machine, and you have a basic backup system in place with very little effort. Time Machine has a lot...
You may not have heard of rsync; it’s a file transfer and synchronization program that’s often used to create elaborate and complex backup systems. Written for Unix operating systems, rsync is included with the Mac and can be accessed directly...
Are you backing up your Mac's data? If not, you may regret it... In this article, we're going to give you five great reasons why you should have at least one backup solution -- either an external drive that is...
Rocket Yard Contributor Steve Sande is out of the country on a great adventure, so he’ll be providing readers with a lot of helpful tips over the next month that can help them use their tech gear confidently and safely...
