Monday, 22 April 2013

Why I need to take backup of my drive | significance of Mac cloning


Your data is vital, irreplaceble, priceless and very expensive to recover (sometimes beyond the reach of recovery). So, it is advisable to backup your Mac regularly to secure it from any loss. If you are like me then your data must contain following stuff:-
Photos (Wedding, Children, family tour,occasion)
Music
Movies
Conference talks
Documents (Business receipts, Scans of all diplomas, licenses, etc. )
Research papers etc
There are so many strong reasons why one should take atleast continuous backups using Time machine. Anytime your drive fails or can be stolen and also wiped by hackers. Infact I must say that its good to have some offsite backups also. However, here I will talk about special type of backups called 'Clone backups'.

A clone is an exact copy of your Mac drive including user data and OS files. Clone gives bootable copy which can be used to boot your Mac if the primary drive fails or gets corrupted.

Prominent reasons for why to clone Mac drive:

  • It is useful In Testing Apps and Trouble shooting issues
  • During replacement of Primary hard drive
  • Its a great way to have functional backup of entire machine

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