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Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac
Author: Joe Kissell
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DejaVu Sans, serif 14pxRead along as backup guru Joe Kissell helps you pick the best backup strategy for your needs and understand the hows and whys of what you are doing, taking you far beyond the limited security of turning on Time Machine or copying a few files to a flash drive. Youll learn the three key parts of a successful backup strategy, advice for backing up digital photos and massive video projects, and time-tested recommendations for setting up, testing, maintaining, and restoring backups. Whether youre running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.6 Snow Leopard, or 10.5 Leopard, youll soon have a reliable, up-to-date backup system.Includes coupons worth $30 off Data Backup and 10% off CrashPlan!Although the 210-page ebook is organized so you can start backing up without reading every page, the full ebook will teach you toDesign a reliable backup system. If youre developing a new backup system, youll learn how to make it not only thorough, ensuring that all your data is safe, but also easy to manage. And if youre reassessing and redesigning an existing backup system, Joe provides detailed advice about how to evaluate it and offers guidance for improving and modernizing it.Talk like an expert. Youll understand terms like versioned backups, push and pull backups, duplicates, server, client, incremental, hard link, metadata, mirroring, and snapshot.Shop for hardware. Youll discover the pros and cons of different backup media options such as hard drives (with USB, FireWire, eSATA, or Thunderbolt interfaces - and with or without full-disk encryption), flash drives, optical media, tape drives, RAIDs, Drobo storage devices, Time Capsules, and NAS and SAN devices.Choose backup software. Youll learn about 14 key features and find overviews and tips for 8 noteworthy backup products (an online appendix covers nearly 100 options), plus several suggestions for online backups. Youll also get Joes personal recommendations to help you sort through the possibilities.Operate your Time Machine. Youll find what goes on beneath Time Machines simple surface, and how best to make use of Apples built-in backup system, including how Lions local backups work when your Time Machine volume isnt available, and how to encrypt a Time Machine backup.Make backups. No matter what backup software you decide to use, Joe provides a conceptual walk-through of the entire process, offering basic information for people whove never made a backup before and savvy, real-world suggestions for making the backup process as easy as possible.Deal with special backup needs. Youll learn what to do about certain kinds of data that may require special backup strategies, such as large media archives, frequently changing files that need special versioned backup treatment, and Windows files and volumes hosted on your Mac.Recover lost data. Use your backup to recover lost data successfully in the event of a hard disk crash or other calamity. After all, restoration is whats really important.font face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxbackup backups back up disk drive CD DVD disc flash Drobo NAS Lion Mountain Lion RAID iDisk Backblaze ChronoSync CrashPlan Data Backup DollyDrive QRecall Retrospect Synk SuperDuper SuperDuper! Carbon Copy Cloner Time Machine Time Capsule duplicate snapshot Macintosh Mac offsite versioning versioned deduplication rolling pruning Kissell Carlson Engst Take Control TidBITS,spanfont
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DejaVu Sans, serif 14pxRead along as backup guru Joe Kissell helps you pick the best backup strategy for your needs and understand the hows and whys of what you are doing, taking you far beyond the limited security of turning on Time Machine or copying a few files to a flash drive. Youll learn the three key parts of a successful backup strategy, advice for backing up digital photos and massive video projects, and time-tested recommendations for setting up, testing, maintaining, and restoring backups. Whether youre running Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, 10.6 Snow Leopard, or 10.5 Leopard, youll soon have a reliable, up-to-date backup system.Includes coupons worth $30 off Data Backup and 10% off CrashPlan!Although the 210-page ebook is organized so you can start backing up without reading every page, the full ebook will teach you toDesign a reliable backup system. If youre developing a new backup system, youll learn how to make it not only thorough, ensuring that all your data is safe, but also easy to manage. And if youre reassessing and redesigning an existing backup system, Joe provides detailed advice about how to evaluate it and offers guidance for improving and modernizing it.Talk like an expert. Youll understand terms like versioned backups, push and pull backups, duplicates, server, client, incremental, hard link, metadata, mirroring, and snapshot.Shop for hardware. Youll discover the pros and cons of different backup media options such as hard drives (with USB, FireWire, eSATA, or Thunderbolt interfaces - and with or without full-disk encryption), flash drives, optical media, tape drives, RAIDs, Drobo storage devices, Time Capsules, and NAS and SAN devices.Choose backup software. Youll learn about 14 key features and find overviews and tips for 8 noteworthy backup products (an online appendix covers nearly 100 options), plus several suggestions for online backups. Youll also get Joes personal recommendations to help you sort through the possibilities.Operate your Time Machine. Youll find what goes on beneath Time Machines simple surface, and how best to make use of Apples built-in backup system, including how Lions local backups work when your Time Machine volume isnt available, and how to encrypt a Time Machine backup.Make backups. No matter what backup software you decide to use, Joe provides a conceptual walk-through of the entire process, offering basic information for people whove never made a backup before and savvy, real-world suggestions for making the backup process as easy as possible.Deal with special backup needs. Youll learn what to do about certain kinds of data that may require special backup strategies, such as large media archives, frequently changing files that need special versioned backup treatment, and Windows files and volumes hosted on your Mac.Recover lost data. Use your backup to recover lost data successfully in the event of a hard disk crash or other calamity. After all, restoration is whats really important.font face=DejaVu Sans, serifspan 14pxbackup backups back up disk drive CD DVD disc flash Drobo NAS Lion Mountain Lion RAID iDisk Backblaze ChronoSync CrashPlan Data Backup DollyDrive QRecall Retrospect Synk SuperDuper SuperDuper! Carbon Copy Cloner Time Machine Time Capsule duplicate snapshot Macintosh Mac offsite versioning versioned deduplication rolling pruning Kissell Carlson Engst Take Control TidBITS,spanfont
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