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Category Archives: Data Backup
How To Make A Startup Disk For A New 2012 Mac
I spoke with a customer that wanted to find out how to make a startup drive for his Mac since his 2012 iMac does not have a SuperDrive. Apple has decided to not include the SuperDrive on a majority of … Continue reading
Make a Clone Backup Before Replacing Your Mac Hard Drive
Today I helped a customer who wanted to use Data Backup 3 to clone their Mac hard drive. He was replacing his Mac hard drive with a new SSD and he wanted a clone backup of his current hard drive … Continue reading
How To Restore a Clone Backup
I want to tell you about a warning that I received from DrivePulse indicating I had errors on my drive. I had to reinstall Mac OS X to resolve this issue after I initialized my startup volume. I did not … Continue reading
How-to Edit a Backup Set in Data Backup 3
Today I spoke with a customer who was reporting that Data Backup 3 would not complete a clone backup set that was running for a long time but now recently was not finishing. The backups had been running fine for … Continue reading
How To Restore Files From A Data Backup 3 Backup
I spoke with a customer regarding a restore of his data from a backup that he made using Data Backup 3 for Mac. He had used Data Backup 3 to create a Simple Copy Backup previously of the Home Folder … Continue reading
Correctly Formatting a Drive for Clone Backups
Today I worked with a customer who was using Data Backup 3 to clone his MacBook Pro’s hard drive so he would have a backup that he could use as a startup disk in case his internal drive failed. He … Continue reading
Restoring my Mac hard drive from a cloned backup
Today I corresponded with a customer who was trying to restore his computer data back to his main hard drive (Macintosh HD) on his Mac Mini from his Data Backup 3 Clone. He had a hard drive that had been … Continue reading
Adjusting Versioned Backups in Data Backup 3
One of the popular backup types in Data Backup 3 is the Versioned Backup which allows you to create an exact copy of your backup source as well as saving older versions of the data that you can restore from. … Continue reading
Getting the Dirt on iCloud
Apple’s iCloud service offers multiple iOS device users a way to seamlessly sync information among all their devices as well as their Mac or PC. Through iCloud, you can sync all your contacts, bookmarks, documents, notes and device settings. iCloud … Continue reading
Restoring Files from an Encrypted Backup
Today I helped a customer that had an Encrypted Backup that he made using Data Backup 3 for Mac from Prosoft Engineering. He wanted to restore some files from a previous backup but was not sure how since he chose … Continue reading