Clone your Mac hard drive to avoid data loss

Many times, you would have heard to ensure your data protection from disaster by cloning your hard drive”. But, most of us ignore its importance in our personal as well as professional life. Today, in this advanced technology era, the most important thing is our – data. 

So, its not your hard drive responsibility to keep your data safe , you need to have some good cloning application for your Mac drive. So, if anything goes wrong with your data you are the only one who is responsible for it. Then you'll have to spend for some data recovery tool but remember, its not always possible to regain data completely and sometimes the loss goes permanent.

So, in order to ensure your data protection it is essential to clone your Mac disk. I can't forget the day when I lost all my stuff including documents, movies, songs and all family snaps that I took at family events, due to my drive failure. After this big loss I realized the importance of backing up plan or drive cloning.

For Mac users, Apple made backing up data easy with Time machine, in Mac OS X. Yet, majority of Mac users don't backup their data regularly because they believe that its a complicated process. 

 

But, the main problem with the majority of users is – they don't have reasonable idea of what and how to backup on Mac drive.

So, this article is explaining the difference between cloning and backup methods and how to decide that when and what to clone or backup.

           Cloning                                                             Backup

Clone is an exact copy of your Mac disk or volume to your desired destination drive or volume. It creates Bootable backups.	Backup of your drive is created in image form and used as a backup for disaster recovery purposes. Backups are not bootable.
This allows you to transfer all your content including OS and installed applications	Backups contains everything including your OS but can't create image of installed applications so you need to reconfigure or reinstall on your destination backup drive.
Cloning is less flexible. It is mainly required at the time of hard drive migration or upgradation of drive. So, we can say its a one time operation gives bootable clone that one need at critical condition when Mac is not booting.	Backup are more flexible and can be scheduled. You can recover or restore your backup from the moment that you need.

Now come to the point we were about to discuss that What should you Backup or Clone:-

To determine what data should you clone or backup, you have to just suppose a situation of losing a particular data type and feel how much it make you terrible. I think this is an easy and best approach to find out your priority wise important data.

Personal data is irreplaceable: It is obvious that personal stuff must be backed up first as it holds special place in your heart. For example: some letters to your love or parents are important to you, so backing up this is the foremost step you should do. As per my views, photos and multimedia files including video of our family events are irreplaceable or you can't be recreated if lost ones. 

 

Clone your OS or important office files :

It is important to clone Mac hard drive so that your data have been secured as a clone on external disk always. And your important files will not go anywhere even after drive failure etc. So, you need not worry about your data safety after having clone of your Mac disk.

Such confidential and important files include documents that are not backed up and lost due to some accidental deletion or error cause a big loss.