You can't have too many backups for Mac hard drives
I've written in this column about the importance of having a good, reliable backup of your computer's data. Of course, you know it's a good idea, but backing up is like flossing: you know you should be doing it regularly, but something more important or interesting to do often comes up instead. And besides, your data won't get lost, right? That happens to other people.
Well, count me among those hapless folks, because recently the hard drive in my wife's MacBook abruptly died. One moment it was streaming music, and in the next, the music stopped and the drive made a very loud clicking noise.
My experience getting the MacBook operating again shows that having just one backup isn't always enough — and that it is possible to recover from a catastrophic hardware failure like this.L33tdawg: I completely agree. I currently have Time Machine backing up to a network attached drive and I run a SuperDuper clone of the drive once a week - you can never have 'too many backups' :)
