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How To Backup Your Mac Intelligently

Here’s a detailed approach to backing up your Mac. Please feel free to add other solutions or approaches.

Apple’s next version of the OSX operating system will include a backup system service called “Time Machine”

Here’s some feedback from a recent UCLA OS/X Forum post with the question. What backup software do you recommend?

Retrospect is the traditional back-up utility for Macs, but

Prosoft Engineering has a nice back-up utility, Data Backup. Their
Website is http://www.prosofteng.com/, and you can find their
products your local Apple store.

There are some other back-up utilities (you can search

VersionTracker), but I’m partial to Prosoft Engineering’s products.
Data Rescue has saved my bacon on a number of occasions (it’s a
non-destructive data recovery tool, and it’s extremely effective,
even with drives that have severely corrupted directory structures).
The quality of this product, its ease of use, and the company’s
excellent support won me over, so I’ve tried some of their other
products (specifically, Picture Rescue and Data Backup).

I haven’t had a situation where I could really test Picture Rescue

(knock on wood), but I like Data Backup and find it up to the
standard of Data Rescue. I think you’ll find a consensus on this
forum that Prosoft Engineering is one of the really good developers.

You can download software from Prosoft Engineering’s Website and demo it.
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