There are a number of reasons you may prefer to back up your phone without having to rely on the usual suspects – iTunes or a Mac. It happens. Maybe you’ve run out of storage space on iCloud. Maybe you just don’t have immediate access to a Mac when you need it. Or, the version […]
Dangers of losing data after or during iOS update: Is data recovery possible?
There is no doubt that updating your software is important. However, backing up your data before you update anything is of far greater importance. Here’s an example of why you should heed this advice: One day you get a notification on your phone that a new software update is available. So you go ahead and […]
Using Multiple Hard Drives with Time Machine
Redundancy is a hugely important part of a good backup regime. You never want a single point of failure, a lynchpin that can bring down the whole system By incorporating multiple hard drives into your routine, you’ll be able to preserve your data across multiple drives. In the event of a disk crash, you’re protected […]
Great Free Backup Apps for macOS
Data loss is a constant threat to our technology-heavy lives. Hard drives are unreliable, mobile devices get lost, children destroy laptops: it’s a rough world out there for your data. You need to protect your files with a reliable backup system that reproduces your data both locally and remotely. You can start creating your own […]
Customize Time Machine Backups With Your Own Schedule
By default, Time Machine will create backups every hour. It saves the last 24 hours worth of hourly backups, the last thirty days of daily backups, and then uses the rest of your disk space to store one backup a week. If you don’t love this default behavior, you can customize Time Machine using freeware […]
Create a Bootable Clone of Your Mac for Easy Backup
A good backup strategy is crucial for any computer user. And with built-in backup tools like Time Machine, macOS makes it easy to keep on top of basic backups. But the macOS ninjas out there do something even better than Time Machine: they use a bootable clone to recover their system from total annihilation at a moment’s […]
The Best Mac Backup Strategies You Should Use Today
You probably don’t need to be convinced of how important a good backup strategy is. From ransom-ware and system crashes to randomly-corrupted files and user error, there are dozens of surprises that can make your data suddenly inaccessible. But what are the best Mac backup strategies for you to start using right now? Backup Strategy: […]
5 iCloud Alternatives For Backing Up iOS Devices
Most iOS users cannot imagine life without iCloud. We know we can’t. Unfortunately, as is the case with essentially every product in the world, not everyone is satisfied with iCloud. Some (most?) say the free storage is too limited, some have cited security issues, and others dislike the slow speeds associated with backing up or […]
How to Browse iCloud Drive Files in Time Machine
Earlier this week Apple released the latest update for OS X Yosemite, bring Mac users up to version 10.10.2 of the operating system. This long-awaited update to the OS delivered a number of important bug fixes and security patches, many of which users felt were long overdue. For instance, the software patch not only addresses lingering issues […]
How to Prepare an iPhone for Sale
One of the best uses for an old iPhone is to sell it, but with most of our lives stored on these mobile devices, giving them to someone you don’t know can be a little scary. Simply removing your apps and email accounts isn’t enough to make sure you’re good to sell. There could still […]
How to Fix a Stuck Time Machine Backup
[Updated December 18, 2014] Time Machine for OS X was first introduced all the way back in 2004 in OS X Leopard. Since then it’s become the best way to back up your Mac. This doesn’t mean that Time Machine is perfect, far from it. There are some issues that can come up from time […]
How To Easily Back Up and Restore Boot Camp Partitions
OS X gives you a simple and effective way to back up everything on your Mac with Time Machine, but what about your Boot Camp Partition? While Time Machine will save everything you want once an hour, one thing it can’t do is save a Windows partition, which Boot Camp just happens to be. This […]
5 Things You Should Do Before Downloading iOS 6
Sometime today, Apple will drop the 6th version of iOS on iPhones, iPods, and iPads everywhere. Before you download that upgrade, here are five important things you should seriously consider doing first.
Making Backing Up Convenient
I’ve been working from two offices recently, which can be a bit of a chore. I’ve talked previously about how I’m essentially duplicating my home setup at the new office, but one thing hasn’t been duplicated: my backup system. At home, I’m currently using a 1TB Western Digital My Book to run my hourly Time […]
Going Nuclear – My Time Capsule Died
When the Time Capsule first came out I was all about it. Network attached storage and it was a router? Sign me up. At the same time, I didn’t have a lot of money to invest in the product, so I bought the 500GB model. Yesterday I was thanking god that I did. First, let’s […]
