How to make an Apple repair person happy-Make Frequent Backups!

You want to make the person you called to fix your Mac happy and smiling?

Answer “YES!” When they ask you, “Well, do you have a recent backup of your Mac?"

If not, well, the repair person can only do so much before they call it quits.

YOU, YES YOU! Have no excuse for not making backups.

A  new 1 terabyte USB backup drive costs $50 at Frys.

If you don’t like Fry’s, try Costco. Or Best Buy or Walmart or Amazon or Staples or OfficeMax or Office Depot.

Just go and buy it. 

Plug it into one of the USB ports on your Mac.

MacOS will recognize it and ask you if you want to use it as a Time Machine drive.

In this case, you say “Yes!” And let macOS guide you through the process.

Your Mac will automatically format the drive properly.

It will set up a schedule of a backup every 60 minutes.

Just keep the drive plugged into your Mac. Let Time Machine do the work.

AND DON’T UNPLUG IT!

 

Tom Briant

Editor, MacValley Blog