Happy World Backup Day! There’s only one way to celebrate the occasion — by preventing tragic data loss and backing up your data.
If you have a Mac, you’ve got no excuse for not performing regular backups. Apple makes it relatively painless by including its Time Machine app in MacOS, which you can schedule to run a full backup of your Mac. You don’t have to do a thing after the initial setup process, which takes just a few minutes.
There is no shortage of cloud storage services that can automatically sync your files, such as Dropbox and Google Drive, but cloud drives can’t back up everything on your computer. For example, they don’t remember your local coffee shop’s Wi-Fi password or every setting in MacOS that you’ve tweaked to make your Mac feel like yours and yours alone. A backup also makes it easy to move your apps, data and settings
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