About Backing UpIn this section, I talk about all sorts of mostly potential threats to a Mac mini. But I just mentioned the most important threatand did so almost in passing. So here goes:More data is lost to operator error and hard drive failure than all other causes combined. You should protect yourself by making at least occasional backups of all your computersespecially important for users who have invested many hours and a lot of money building music and family photography collections they'd hate to see disappear.The way to protect your files is to copy the data to another hard drive or onto DVDs. A .Mac membership buys you a program called Backup as well as remote storage on .Mac's iDisk. You should use both.The Backup software makes it easy to safeguard your important data, though not your applications. The iDisk gives you a place to store your most important files on the Internet, where they are safe from such dangers as the loss of your computer or your house burning down. Figures 7.6, 7.7 , and 7.8 illustrate the .Mac backup features. Figure 7.6. The Backup utility provided with a .Mac membership allows you to save copies of your data to a variety of targets, including external hard drives, other Macs, your .Mac iDisk, and a CD or DVD disc, as shown here. Figure 7.7. When you use Backup with your iDisk, you'll want to make the items list shorter to better match the limited capacity of the iDisk, shown at the top right. An iDisk backup is perfect for frequently changed items, such as documents, and can be set to run automatically, as shown at the bottom left. Figure 7.8. .Mac Sync is a feature added with Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger that allows multiple Macs to remain synchronized via the .Mac service. Because this allows your data to be stored on .Mac, it's an effective backup approach, even if you don't have other Macs to share data with. |
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