[Z-man]

twobone:

Are you familiar with Apple's Timemachine software? It comes with your iMAC. Plug in an external hard drive, assign it to your iMAC, and it will automatically backup all your files, and enable versioning as well. Versioning works like this: say you saved a document two days ago. Today, you whacked that file. Go into time machine, 'rewind' to two days ago, find your file, and restore it. Done.

Another thing Timemachine can do is if you are upgrading your iMAC to a newer iMAC or even a MAC Book Pro, you can migrate all your data using time machine -- it is automatic and quite painless.

Amazing backup management software -- if you have a Mac and you aren't using this, then you are truly not protected.

-Z-man.