{"id":960,"date":"2012-02-08T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/02\/08\/how-to-back-up-your-data-on-your-mac\/"},"modified":"2012-02-08T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T00:18:00","slug":"how-to-back-up-your-data-on-your-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2012\/02\/08\/how-to-back-up-your-data-on-your-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Back Up Your Data on Your Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zT6eKGAenRY\/TzMDAUeqqdI\/AAAAAAAAA-k\/b29x6CRU9k0\/s1600\/HardDrive-icon.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 256px;height: 256px\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zT6eKGAenRY\/TzMDAUeqqdI\/AAAAAAAAA-k\/b29x6CRU9k0\/s400\/HardDrive-icon.png\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5706908456840767954\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great little wiki article in the <a href=\"http:\/\/howto.wired.com\/wiki\/Back_Up_Your_Data_on_a_Mac\">How To section of Wired.com<\/a>. It talks about backing up your data as a Mac user. It&#8217;s extremely important to back up all your data, but most of us don&#8217;t learn this or follow through and actually do it until we&#8217;ve learned the hard way. The hardest part is purchasing an external hard drive with tons of space on it &#8211; at least the same capacity as the drive you&#8217;re backing up. Next you&#8217;ll need back up software. <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT1427\">Time Machine<\/a> is probably the easiest option because it comes with the Mac operating systems as long as your Mac has Leopard 10.5 or later. Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/howto.wired.com\/wiki\/Back_Up_Your_Data_on_a_Mac\">article<\/a> for the details. They also list several alternatives to Time Machine and they also mention some online options for backing up your data.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great little wiki article in the How To section of Wired.com. It talks about backing up your data as a Mac user. It&#8217;s extremely important to back up all your data, but most of us don&#8217;t learn this or follow through and actually do it until we&#8217;ve learned the hard way. The hardest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,162,250,251],"class_list":["post-960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apple","tag-hard-drive","tag-nmc","tag-nmc-tips-and-tricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}