October 2014
Beginner
512 pages
11h 40m
English
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Chapter 19
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.
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If you turn on FileVault (described later in this chapter) and forget both your login password and your master password, you can’t log in to your account — and your data is lost forever. ...