

To adequately protect your data you will need to invest in a peripheral storage device such as a USB attached hard drive.

The goal is to protect your data, and having a backup on the same physical disk as the original data does not fulfill that objective. You might be tempted to designate a partition of your main hard drive for this purpose but that would not be a good idea. When using Time Machine to create a backup or cloning your hard drive, you need to provide sufficient storage space on which to save your backup. Using more than one method is preferable, as it gives you options when it’s time to use the backups for recovery. The bottom line is if you value your data, you should be backing it up.

It’s one of the dangers we need to accept if we want to reap the fruits of the digital world. A catastrophic data loss could result in serious repercussions that can impact you in a variety of ways. If you are like the majority of Mac users, there are a lot of very important documents and files that live on your machine’s storage devices. The importance of regularly backing up your computer cannot be overstated.
