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macOS Sonoma For Dummies
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macOS Sonoma For Dummies

by Guy Hart-Davis
November 2023
Beginner content levelBeginner
480 pages
12h 13m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 21

Safety First: Backups and Other Security Issues

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Backing up: It’s easy

Bullet Understanding why you should back up your data (twice)

Bullet Keeping your Mac safe from viruses and malicious attacks

Bullet Protecting your data

Although Macs are generally reliable, someday your Mac’s drive will die, whether it’s a hard drive with spinning platters or a solid-state drive (SSD). The drive’s death isn’t an if; it’s a when. All disks will die someday. And if you don’t back up your drive (or at least back up any files that you can’t afford to lose) before that day comes, chances are good that those files will be gone forever.

In other words, you absolutely, positively, without question must back up your files if you don’t want to risk losing them. Just as you make a habit of using the App ⇒   Shut Down command before turning off your Mac, you must remember to back up important files stored on your Mac to another disk or device — and back them up often.

How often is often? That depends on ...

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