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Safety First: Backups and Other Security Issues
In This Chapter
Backing up . . . it’s easy
Discovering why you should back up
Finding out what happens to you if you don’t back up
Keeping your Mac safe from rogue viruses and malicious attacks
Protecting your data from prying eyes
Although Macs are generally reliable beasts (especially Macs running OS X), someday your hard drive (or SSD) will die. I promise. They all do. 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 you’ll never see those files again. And if you do see them again, my friend, it will be only after paying someone like my buddy Scott Gaidano, the founder of DriveSavers Data Recovery Service. And even if you pay, there’s no guarantee of success.
DriveSavers is the premier recoverer of lost data on hard drives. The people ...
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