Choose Local or Network Backups

Before you go too far in designing a backup plan, you should take a moment to ponder whether you’ll back up to a local storage device (that is, one connected directly to a Mac with a cable) or to a device located somewhere else on your (wired or wireless) network—or both.

In years past, I assumed that in most cases each Mac would have ...

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