How to Backup Your Mac with Disk Drill
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How to Backup a Mac with Disk Drill: http://www.cleverfiles.com/hard-drive-backup.html When your drive kicks the bucket be it physical damage or some sort of partition corruption you don’t want to be caught without a backup. This tutorial showcases the image backup functionality or as I like to call it the life saving feature of Disk Drill. Something everyone should practice in the event anything ever goes wrong in the future with their drive & data. The saying is if the data doesn’t exist twice it doesn’t exist at all. The solution is simple, backup. Think of this feature as free mac data backup. Disk Drill’s DMG back up feature allows you to easily backup data on your mac in one swoop. Drives being physical can fail so before that occurs it’s a good idea to create a DMG backup to image your whole drive in its current state. Disk Drill showcases all your drives as soon as you open it. From there it’s a good idea to review all your volumes present be it external or internal drives. You can then see at a glance which drives may have issues or aren’t 100% stable. These are the key ones to backup. Simply go to the top & click on the “Backup” button to begin, you’ll then select the Backup into DMG image from the drop down menu. From there Disk Drill outlines the 3 simple steps that’ll take place. Select your drive/partition you’d like to backup, choose it’s location (recommended this be an external drive), wait for the app to complete the image which can vary in time depending on the amount of data. Upon completion you can then use the app in the future to mount said image. An image is exactly what it sounds like, a snapshot of your drive or partition. Gathering all your data, apps, documents & providing a free mac data back up in case anything ever goes wrong. When it does you’ll be able to re-launch the app & simply re-mount the image or click on that .DMG file to mount it & begin the recovery process. You’ll then have access to all those files that were previously backed up in the state when you created the image. No need to manually move files over one by one or worry about scheduled backups every week as Disk Drill turns this into a one click process. Simply grab your drive whenever you have a considerable amount of data on it & create a backup disk image. Store somewhere safe such as an external hard drive & whenever things go wrong due to hardware or software failure rest easy knowing Disk Drill has you covered. Even if your drive is completely destroyed for whatever reason you have a soft copy backed up that you can easily extract to move to a new drive as needed. You don’t want to be thinking about back ups after you’ve already lost the data. So plan ahead & grab free Disk Drill today & begin the process of backing up all your media, your future self will thank you!