Backup Pc And Mac

When you turn on computer backup, files on your PC or Mac are continuously backed up to the cloud. Any changes made in synced folders are automatically updated in your Dropbox account and on your hard drive. Access your files—whenever, wherever. This one's widely used and recognized by Windows users in comparison to those using Mac. However, the truth is that it can be of great help in availing personal backup solutions and taking backup of data in a local disk, an attached network, or its cloud service. The device has 256-bit AES hardware encryption, and automatic backup software (WD SmartWare Pro). It's also worth noting that the enclosure used is fully serviceable and that WD ships the drive already pre-formatted for Windows users (NTFS), so you'll want to reformat it to work with your Mac.

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Since the debut of iOS 5, iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad owners have been able to enjoy encrypted, free messages between them thanks to iMessage. However, being such an essential aspect of everyone's lives (as much as email in some cases), it is important to know how to keep your messages safe and protected in case something happens to your iPhone or other iOS device.

Here's is how you can do it and also how you can read your message backups on your computer without your iPhone.

Backing Up Your Messages

Step 1: To start, you will need to perform a local backup of your iOS device via iTunes to have all its information on your Mac or PC. To do so, just open iTunes on your computer and plug in your iPhone (or wait for it to show up if you have wireless syncing enabled). Once it does, click on its main information window and click on Back Up Now under Manually Backup and Restore.

The backup process might take a while, so be patient.

Step 2: Go to where your iPhone's backup data is stored. On Windows: Users > [username] > Application Data. On Macs, go to the Finder and click Go on the menu bar while holding the Option key to reveal the Library folder. Open it.

Once inside, look for the folder named Application Support Chaos control: gtd organizer 1 0 3 download free. Ebay turbo lister 2 mac. and open it.

Step 3: Inside this folder, go to MobileSync > Backup. You will find one or more folders named with a series of numbers each. Open the most recent one located there.

Once inside, look for a file named 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 (order them by name to make it easier) and copy it to your desktop.

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Reading Your Message Backup Files

There are a few online tools out there that serve this purpose, but for the sake of security, we will use a native Mac application to read our messages.

Go to this website and download MesaSQLite for Mac OS X, similar programs for Windows are also available.

Step 1: Extract the app and open it. When you do it will immediately prompt you to select your messages backup file. Do so.

Step 2: Take a look at the picture below and make sure to select the same option in the fields of the application. (message, text, contains). This will allow you to use the search field to search your messages, which you can preview right from within the application.

There you go. Now you can not only store local backups of your messages, but also read them and search through them without having to worry what happens to your iOS device.

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Step 2: Go to where your iPhone's backup data is stored. On Windows: Users > [username] > Application Data. On Macs, go to the Finder and click Go on the menu bar while holding the Option key to reveal the Library folder. Open it.

Once inside, look for the folder named Application Support Chaos control: gtd organizer 1 0 3 download free. Ebay turbo lister 2 mac. and open it.

Step 3: Inside this folder, go to MobileSync > Backup. You will find one or more folders named with a series of numbers each. Open the most recent one located there.

Once inside, look for a file named 3d0d7e5fb2ce288813306e4d4636395e047a3d28 (order them by name to make it easier) and copy it to your desktop.

Now, let's see how to make sense of all this and read your messages. Comic life 3 0 – create web ready comic strips.

Reading Your Message Backup Files

There are a few online tools out there that serve this purpose, but for the sake of security, we will use a native Mac application to read our messages.

Go to this website and download MesaSQLite for Mac OS X, similar programs for Windows are also available.

Step 1: Extract the app and open it. When you do it will immediately prompt you to select your messages backup file. Do so.

Step 2: Take a look at the picture below and make sure to select the same option in the fields of the application. (message, text, contains). This will allow you to use the search field to search your messages, which you can preview right from within the application.

There you go. Now you can not only store local backups of your messages, but also read them and search through them without having to worry what happens to your iOS device.

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Bill: Oh man, you look panicked. What happened?
Stephen: My hard drive failed Monday night. I lost everything. Pictures, emails, my resume…
Bill: You didn't have it backed up?
Stephen: Nope.

Most of the time people aren't prepared for their hard drive to fail, and most of the time they lose everything. To avoid being the next Stephen, follow the steps below to back up your computer.

Buy a Backup Hard Drive

One of the difficulties of making backups is that those backups take up a lot of space on your computer. In order to have enough room to back up your computer, you might want to buy an external hard drive. Don't worry though, an external hard drive on Amazon.com with one terabyte of space runs for less than $100.00. To give you an idea of the massive size of a one terabyte hard drive consider this: a one terabyte hard drive will hold up to 200,000 pictures or up to 250,000 songs. Here are a couple of places you can buy an external hard drive for a good price:

Backup a Windows 7 Computer

Here's how to back up your Windows 7 computer.

1. Plug-in your external hard drive to your computer.
2. Double click on Computer. A list of drives will open up in a separate window.
3. Right-click on your main hard drive and click 'Properties'.
4. Click the 'Tools' tab at the top.
5. Click 'Back up now…'.
6. Under the window 'Back up or restore your files' click 'Set up backup'.
7. Click your backup drive in the 'Select where you want to save your backup' window and click Next. If you have an external hard drive you would select that here.
8. Windows will ask what you want to back up. Picking 'Let Windows choose' will work fine for most people. If you prefer more control you can choose your folders by picking 'Let me choose'.
9. Under 'How often do you want to back up?' schedule the backup frequency. For someone who's files are a matter of life or death you can schedule for every day. For others, once a week should suffice.
10. Click 'OK' and your first back up should begin. You may notice the first backup takes a long time. Don't worry because after the first backup Windows will only backup files that have changed and will be much faster. Once you see your first backup start you are good to go.

Backup a Mac OS X Computer

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1. Plug in your external hard drive to your computer.
2. A popup will appear asking if you want to use this backup with time machine. Click 'Use as Backup Disk'. If for some reason a popup doesn't open go to System Preferences >> Time Machine and click 'Select Disk…' to choose your external hard drive.
3. That's it. Time Machine will now take hourly backups for the last 24 hours, daily backups for the last month, and weekly backups until your external hard drive is full. When this happens Time Machine will start deleting your oldest backups to make room for new ones. Also, just like Windows, the first backup may take a while, but subsequent backups will be much faster.

*Note: Time Machine does offer some options for customizing your backups. If you want to exclude files or include an additional hard drive go to System Preferences >> Time Machine and click 'Options'.

I know some people have operating systems other than Windows 7 and Mac OS X. Here is an article to help you if you have a different operating system.

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Do you have any other tips to help people backup their files? Have you ever lost everything to a failed hard drive? Let us know in the comments.

Resources

How to Use Backup and Restore in Windows 7
Mac 101: Time Machine
How to Backup and Restore Your Mac Using Time Machine

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