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Worry about hard drive.
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<blockquote data-quote="zacster" data-source="post: 1316915" data-attributes="member: 17931"><p>You can buy any kind of external drive, it doesn't have to be Apple. Just plug it in and set Time Machine preferences to use that drive and TM will do the rest. The first backup will take a while, but after that it only backs up changes.</p><p></p><p>I've recovered a few things from TM. Once, I lost my entire hard drive, TM saved the day. A few other times I was unhappy with a new version of something and just pulled the older version. And when I was doing my taxes a few weeks ago I somehow managed to cancel all changes and was left with just my personal info. Luckily, Turbo Tax was saving versions as it went along and I could pull the last good version. Only lost my last entry.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zacster, post: 1316915, member: 17931"] You can buy any kind of external drive, it doesn't have to be Apple. Just plug it in and set Time Machine preferences to use that drive and TM will do the rest. The first backup will take a while, but after that it only backs up changes. I've recovered a few things from TM. Once, I lost my entire hard drive, TM saved the day. A few other times I was unhappy with a new version of something and just pulled the older version. And when I was doing my taxes a few weeks ago I somehow managed to cancel all changes and was left with just my personal info. Luckily, Turbo Tax was saving versions as it went along and I could pull the last good version. Only lost my last entry. [/QUOTE]
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