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Add Apple's free Backup.app to your backup toolbox

by TJ Luoma (Oct 13th, 2009)

When most people think about Apple and backups they probably think about Time Machine or perhaps even Time Capsule. But Apple has a lesser-known application which you might consider using. The app, simply named Backup, was originally available only to .Mac users, but is now openly available on ...

Backups save the day after data loss

by TJ Luoma (Oct 13th, 2009)

About 13GB of data was accidentally deleted from my account on my Mac yesterday. Fortunately, due to an aggressive backup system, I was able to recover all of the files. I was trying to test out a tip sent to the TUAW team, which led me to log into (and out of) the "Guest" account several times. One ...

Mission TUAWpossible: Back up your iPhone with Time Machine

by Erica Sadun (Aug 21st, 2008)

Good morning, Mr. Phelps. The man you are looking at is Justin T. iPhoneuser, one of our loyal TUAW readers. Recently, Justin's iPhone went kablooey and when he tried to restore, he found that his backups were corrupted. He lost a great deal of data and time, all because Time Machine hadn't backed ...