Backup Software

Next to hard-drive diagnostic software, backup applications are perhaps the most indispensable products. Although you may view backups as drudgery and a task you prefer to put off until next week or next month, the first time you lose a file, you will appreciate the value of that extra work.

Perhaps you think only large businesses need to back up—but almost every Mac user has a file he or she would want to preserve in case of emergency. It could be your personal Quicken checkbook, or your TurboTax or Kiplinger TaxCut income tax return, or perhaps that important cake recipe you intended to save for your child's next birthday. Maybe it's that new novel you're working on, hoping some big publisher will fall in love with it and make ...

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