Do you use Time Machine as your only back up? Double it!

If you use Time Machine as your means of backing up your hard drive, don’t forget Time Machine is tough to test, and is very hard on hard drive directories. I recommend a “double back up” one Time Machine backup and one clone backup. (I recommend Super Duper) That way if you ever have to get right back to work (during a hard drive emergency), you can boot off your clone hard drive and find your current files from an hour ago on time machine. A full Time Machine restore can take 4 or 5 hours on a large volume AND it could run all day, and then not work (been there done that!). All of that time would then be wasted. If you had a clone AND another computer, you could boot off of your clone back up volume and get right back to work. See this MacMedics Blog post for more info.