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<blockquote data-quote="Rod" data-source="post: 1665853" data-attributes="member: 204485"><p>Well I consider as a matter of insurance a full backup is a must.</p><p>The reality is your mac will crash. Maybe not today but eventually it must. The average life span of a computer is 5 years. After that you are living on borrowed time.</p><p>At the very least a dedicated USB 2 external drive running the native Time Machine app will enable you to restore your data to a new or repaired machine. The last two operating systems ( Mavericks and Yosemite) will even ask you when you plug in a new USB HD if you want to use it for a Time Machine Backup. Click yes and it does the rest. Get a drive about twice the size of your Macintosh HD and any reputable brand will be fine. Seagate, Western Digital whatever, price is a good indicator. </p><p>You will not be using this for playback so speed is not of great concern USB 2 will be fine. </p><p>Time machine backups (look it up) are not structured like the files on your computer but it has many good attributes. It is primarily designed to restore individual files or a complete hard drive in case of loss or corruption.</p><p>CCC clones are very different, both in structure and use. Because of that they require more knowledge to set up and benefit from faster connections but are a pocket size duplicate of your computer HD. That is you can plug it into another compatible mac, choose it as the startup disk in preferences and voila what you see is your computer.</p><p>Do consider at the very least a TM backup. You will thank me one day.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPhone using Mac Forums.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Rod, post: 1665853, member: 204485"] Well I consider as a matter of insurance a full backup is a must. The reality is your mac will crash. Maybe not today but eventually it must. The average life span of a computer is 5 years. After that you are living on borrowed time. At the very least a dedicated USB 2 external drive running the native Time Machine app will enable you to restore your data to a new or repaired machine. The last two operating systems ( Mavericks and Yosemite) will even ask you when you plug in a new USB HD if you want to use it for a Time Machine Backup. Click yes and it does the rest. Get a drive about twice the size of your Macintosh HD and any reputable brand will be fine. Seagate, Western Digital whatever, price is a good indicator. You will not be using this for playback so speed is not of great concern USB 2 will be fine. Time machine backups (look it up) are not structured like the files on your computer but it has many good attributes. It is primarily designed to restore individual files or a complete hard drive in case of loss or corruption. CCC clones are very different, both in structure and use. Because of that they require more knowledge to set up and benefit from faster connections but are a pocket size duplicate of your computer HD. That is you can plug it into another compatible mac, choose it as the startup disk in preferences and voila what you see is your computer. Do consider at the very least a TM backup. You will thank me one day. Sent from my iPhone using Mac Forums. [/QUOTE]
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