Welcome to the first of a series of quick tips covering the software you need to backup the data on your PC or Mac. As our computers are ever increasingly used for tasks such as taxes, business and storing other irreplaceable files such as photos and videos it also becomes important that we back that data up. In the event that your hard drive crashes or becomes corrupted you’ll have dupicates of all of your important data.

In this quick tip we look at iBackup, a free and easy to use tool to backup data on your Mac, available here.

After installing and launching iBackup you’ll see the main window (image below). The first step is to choose the location of your backup. If you have an external hard drive select it here, or if you wish to backup to your local drive and later burn the backup folder to a CD or DVD then choose a local folder. Then choose the files that you wish to backup by selecting them on the left side of the main window. Lastly, click the backup button the start the backup process. It’s as easy as that, although, iBackup has many features and plugins to explore. For a full guide read the full documentation available here.

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