Secure Your Data by Creating a Replica of Your Hard Drive

Macs are undoubtedly one of the most robust operating systems that are secure against viruses and less prone to file system corruption. However, this does not mean Mac machines never encounter data loss. Indeed, Mac users also come across situations where the invaluable data stored on their hard drive becomes inaccessible or gets lost. Therefore, it is suggested to take backup of your hard drive data irrespective of the operating system used on it.

Data backup is considered as one of the most efficient methods to restore data in various cases of data loss. Therefore, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and later versions come with a utility called ‘Time Machine’ that creates backup of your entire data, including system files, emails, photos, applications, movies, documents, etc. 

This efficient utility of Mac OS X is simple to use as you just need to attach the drive on which you want to the back up and configure ‘Time Machine’ to use it. The reason why ‘Time Machine’ is different from any other backup utility is it not only copies Mac drive with all its files, but remembers how your machine looked like at any given time. In this way, you can create hourly backup of your hard drive for past 24 hours, daily backups for past month, and weekly backup until your backup drive is full.

However, you can take the benefit of ‘Time Machine’ only when you are a user of Mac OS X 10.5 or later Mac version. Moreover, you may sometime find out that the process is time-consuming and tedious for you. If you experience any of these situations, then use of a professional software to clone Mac is often recommended.

These tools are generally known as drive cloning utilities. As their name suggests, i.e. clone tools, they create a replica of your entire hard drive to an external drive. However, the destination drive must have free space equal or more than that of the source drive. Moreover, it is suggested not to save anything on the destination drive as the cloning process overwrites everything present on it.

An efficient cloning utility enables its users to resize the destination drive to reuse all the remaining space on it, which could be wasted otherwise. Apart from this, some reliable tools give you option to create the bootable DVD of your system and set the preferences for personalizing the end task activities.

According to your requirement, you can create the backup copy of your entire Mac hard drive with any of the two above mentioned methods.