Walkthrough: Easy Backups with Mozy (and how to get a few free gigs)

Written on May 26, 2008 by Jethro Jones and 21 people have commented

Many people still have not made the “Leopard leap” and upgraded to Apple’s latest operating system. And of those who have, I am sure there are many that are either not using Time Machine, or want an off-site backup system. It is nice to be able to back up all your stuff to a backup [...]

First release of the day: Time Capsule

Written on January 15, 2008 by Josh Pigford and 12 people have commented

Macworld 2008’s keynote is currently underway and the first new product out of the gates is Time Capsule.
Time Capsule seems to be Apple’s answer to wirelessly backing up your data with Time Machine. Time Capsule is an Airport Extreme base station with a “server grade” internal hard drive. It looks pretty much identical to the [...]

Time Machine Scheduler

Written on January 04, 2008 by Stephanie Guertin and 17 people have commented

It’s fairly well accepted by most commenters at this point that Time Machine may be one of the biggest features to be part of Leopard. Even those users who managed their own backup solutions - and many still do, including myself - applaud it for making backups both easy and intuitive for the average [...]

Mozy On Out: My backup and restore experience with Leopard

Written on November 15, 2007 by Arvin Dang and 24 people have commented

Thinking back a few years, I remember every time I needed to upgrade my system or prepare for a format, I’d rely on using CD-Rs as a method for backing up my media and documents. Pain yes, efficient no, effective, yes. Of course this was back in the early XP days when I needed to [...]

Time Machine isn’t perfect

Written on October 29, 2007 by Billy Halsey and 14 people have commented

One of the most highly touted features new to Leopard is Time Machine, the “always on” backup system that takes the effort and guesswork out of backing up important data. But, to the chagrin of many (or at least myself), Time Machine does not backup to AirDisks. I have not personally tried it, but when [...]

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