It’s an unfortunate fact that hard drives fail. And because it’s impossible to know whether it might happen within the first 6 months, after 5 years, or well after the useful life of the computer has ended, it’s vital that you have a solid backup method for your information. Work documents, school projects, home finances, and family photos are just some of the irreplaceable items that can be lost if your hard drive fails.

Soho offers all the available solutions for protecting your data including Time Capsule, external hard drives, MobileMe subscriptions, CDs and DVDs.

Backup instructions for each of these methods are outlined below:

From Apple – http://www.apple.com/support/backup/

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Backup options for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

• Time Machine – Learn how to set up Time Machine to perform backups to external hard drives, Time Capsule and more.
• Time Capsule – Learn more about backing up your data with Time Capsule.
• External hard drive – There are several ways you can back up your computer’s hard drive to an external hard drive.
• MobileMe – If you are a MobileMe user, you can use MobileMe’s iDisk.
• Disk Utility – If you need to back up more files than can fit on a single CD or DVD, you can use Disk Utility to create a compressed disk image of the files.

Backup options for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard

• Time Machine – Learn how to set up Time Machine to perform backups to external hard drives, Time Capsule and more.
• Time Capsule – Learn more about backing up your data with Time Capsule.
• External hard drive – There are several ways you can back up your computer’s hard drive to an external hard drive.
• MobileMe – If you are a MobileMe user, you can use MobileMe’s iDisk.
• Disk Utility – If you need to back up more files than can fit on a single CD or DVD, you can use Disk Utility to create a compressed disk image of the files.

Backup options for Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger

• MobileMe – If you are a MobileMe user, you can use MobileMe’s iDisk.
• Disk Utility – If you need to back up more files than can fit on a single CD or DVD, you can use Disk Utility to create a compressed disk image of the files.
• Other backup options – You can burn files to a disc with OS X v10.4.

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