{"id":657,"date":"2007-01-03T21:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T21:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm"},"modified":"2008-12-31T16:18:05","modified_gmt":"2008-12-31T16:18:05","slug":"free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm","title":{"rendered":"Free backup software for Mac OS X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--116786254863793159--><a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2004\/12\/more-problems-with-dell-latitude-d600.htm\">A couple of years ago I suffered a hard disk failure and I was very lucky to retrieve most of my data from other sources<\/a>.  That should have taught me to keep backups but I&#8217;m still not as good as I should be.  My work laptop is hardly ever backed up (but most important items are also available in my e-mail) and I should really do a better job with my server at home (although most of the data is software that could be downloaded again).  What really worries me is having to re-rip my <a href=\"http:\/\/clkuk.tradedoubler.com\/click?p(23708)a(1115261)g(11703474)\">iTunes<\/a> library (and re-purchase tracks bought from the iTunes store) or, even worse, losing my digital photos (some of which are irreplaceable images of my family) and so I really must make backups of the data on my Mac.<\/p>\n<p>One of the failings of Mac OS X is a lack of built-in backup software.  Actually, that&#8217;s not true &#8211; there are standard Unix utilities such as <a href=\"http:\/\/rsync.samba.org\/\">rsync<\/a> and Apple does provide advice for <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.info.apple.com\/article.html?artnum=106941\">how to back up and restore your files<\/a> but if you want to use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mac.com\/1\/solutions\/backup.html\">Apple Backup<\/a>, then you need a .Mac subscription (I believe that software like this should really be included with the operating system).<\/p>\n<p>Thinking that there must be plenty of people who have experienced this issue previously, I went googling for free backup software for the Mac and found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pure-mac.com\/backup.html\">a list of backup programs courtesy of Pure Mac<\/a>.  First of all, I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/freeridecoding.com\/smartbackup\/\">SmartBackup<\/a>, which looks great, but it also costs $19.50, and whilst I&#8217;d be happy to part with cash for something if it really hits the mark, as I mentioned previously, I could script something from the command line for free.  Another option was <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.macosxlabs.org\/rsyncx\/rsyncx.html\">RsyncX<\/a>, but this will not run on Intel Macs, so I got looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macdevcenter.com\/pub\/a\/mac\/2005\/07\/22\/backup.html\">automated backups using rsync<\/a>.  Although rsync is incredibly powerful , it was looking as though it would take me some time to work out exactly what I would need to back up (although <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petefreitag.com\/item\/549.cfm\">Pete Freitag&#8217;s article on how to backup your Mac incrementally over ssh<\/a> looked useful), until I stumbled across <a href=\"http:\/\/rsyncbackup.erlang.no\/\">rsyncbackup<\/a> &#8211; a set of scripts with documentation, designed to simplify setting up an rsync-based backup routine.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, I settled on the easy option &#8211; using a program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grapefruit.ch\/iBackup\/\">iBackup<\/a>, which is free for personal and non-commercial use and seems to do everything that I need it to.  It&#8217;s pretty basic but all I really need is to make regular copies of my data to a second external hard disk.  iBackup supports scheduled backups using multiple backup profiles and features a system of plugins to back up application settings.  Above all, it&#8217;s easy to use (although it doesn&#8217;t run as a service so needs to be running for anything to happen, although it can be minimised).<\/p>\n<p>Of course, I still need to back my photos up to DVD from time to time and store the media off-site (in case I have a fire or something else that wipes out the Mac and both my hard drives) but at least I now have some protection against losing those essential family photos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago I suffered a hard disk failure and I was very lucky to retrieve most of my data from other sources. That should have taught me to keep backups but I&#8217;m still not as good as I should be. My work laptop is hardly ever backed up (but most important items &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Free backup software for Mac OS X<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-useful-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Free backup software for Mac OS X - markwilson.it<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Free backup software for Mac OS X - markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A couple of years ago I suffered a hard disk failure and I was very lucky to retrieve most of my data from other sources. That should have taught me to keep backups but I&#8217;m still not as good as I should be. My work laptop is hardly ever backed up (but most important items &hellip; Continue reading Free backup software for Mac OS X\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"markwilson.it\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2007-01-03T21:31:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2008-12-31T16:18:05+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Mark Wilson\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@markwilsonit\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@markwilsonit\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Mark Wilson\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/01\\\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/01\\\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Mark Wilson\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468\"},\"headline\":\"Free backup software for Mac OS X\",\"datePublished\":\"2007-01-03T21:31:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-12-31T16:18:05+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/01\\\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm\"},\"wordCount\":536,\"commentCount\":4,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468\"},\"keywords\":[\"Useful Software\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/01\\\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/01\\\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/01\\\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm\",\"name\":\"Free backup software for Mac OS X - markwilson.it\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2007-01-03T21:31:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2008-12-31T16:18:05+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/01\\\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/01\\\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/2007\\\/01\\\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Free backup software for Mac OS X\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/\",\"name\":\"markwilson.it\",\"description\":\"get-info -class technology | write-output &gt; \\\/dev\\\/web\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\"},{\"@type\":[\"Person\",\"Organization\"],\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468\",\"name\":\"Mark Wilson\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-GB\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/uploads\\\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/uploads\\\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/uploads\\\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1\",\"width\":800,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"Mark Wilson\"},\"logo\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/i0.wp.com\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/uploads\\\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1\"},\"description\":\"A Chartered IT Professional, with recent experience in technology leadership, IT strategy and practice management roles, Mark Wilson is an Enterprise Architect in the Advisory and Management Group at risual. During a career spanning more than two decades, Mark has gained widespread recognition as an expert in his field including both industry and national press exposure. In addition to certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat, The Open Group and Axelos, Mark held a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for three years and is now part of the MVP Reconnect programme. Mark is also well-known on social media and maintains an award-winning blog.\",\"sameAs\":[\"http:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.instagram.com\\\/markwilsonuk\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.linkedin.com\\\/in\\\/markawilson\\\/\",\"https:\\\/\\\/x.com\\\/markwilsonit\",\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/channel\\\/UCWHlZCoHRTocdvtrOJ2IL4A\"],\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.markwilson.co.uk\\\/blog\\\/author\\\/mark-wilson\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Free backup software for Mac OS X - markwilson.it","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm","og_locale":"en_GB","og_type":"article","og_title":"Free backup software for Mac OS X - markwilson.it","og_description":"A couple of years ago I suffered a hard disk failure and I was very lucky to retrieve most of my data from other sources. That should have taught me to keep backups but I&#8217;m still not as good as I should be. My work laptop is hardly ever backed up (but most important items &hellip; Continue reading Free backup software for Mac OS X","og_url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm","og_site_name":"markwilson.it","article_published_time":"2007-01-03T21:31:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2008-12-31T16:18:05+00:00","author":"Mark Wilson","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@markwilsonit","twitter_site":"@markwilsonit","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Mark Wilson","Estimated reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm"},"author":{"name":"Mark Wilson","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468"},"headline":"Free backup software for Mac OS X","datePublished":"2007-01-03T21:31:00+00:00","dateModified":"2008-12-31T16:18:05+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm"},"wordCount":536,"commentCount":4,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468"},"keywords":["Useful Software"],"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm","url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm","name":"Free backup software for Mac OS X - markwilson.it","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2007-01-03T21:31:00+00:00","dateModified":"2008-12-31T16:18:05+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-GB","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/01\/free-backup-software-for-mac-os-x.htm#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Free backup software for Mac OS X"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/","name":"markwilson.it","description":"get-info -class technology | write-output &gt; \/dev\/web","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-GB"},{"@type":["Person","Organization"],"@id":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/98f61365e7c39d6be942174b8c4de468","name":"Mark Wilson","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-GB","@id":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/uploads\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/uploads\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","contentUrl":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/uploads\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1","width":800,"height":800,"caption":"Mark Wilson"},"logo":{"@id":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/uploads\/image-4.png?fit=800%2C800&ssl=1"},"description":"A Chartered IT Professional, with recent experience in technology leadership, IT strategy and practice management roles, Mark Wilson is an Enterprise Architect in the Advisory and Management Group at risual. During a career spanning more than two decades, Mark has gained widespread recognition as an expert in his field including both industry and national press exposure. In addition to certifications from Microsoft, VMware, Red Hat, The Open Group and Axelos, Mark held a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for three years and is now part of the MVP Reconnect programme. Mark is also well-known on social media and maintains an award-winning blog.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/markwilsonuk\/","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/markawilson\/","https:\/\/x.com\/markwilsonit","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCWHlZCoHRTocdvtrOJ2IL4A"],"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/author\/mark-wilson"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":784,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/recovering-data-after-destroying-the-mac-os-x-partition-table.htm","url_meta":{"origin":657,"position":0},"title":"Recovering data after destroying the Mac OS X partition table","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Thursday 10 May 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm not a religious man but every once in a while I do something stupid and find myself hoping for some divine intervention. Yesterday, I excelled in my stupidity with what was probably the single most careless thing that I have ever done in my entire computing life, accidentally re-initialising\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Apple Mac OS X\"","block_context":{"text":"Apple Mac OS X","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/mac-os-x"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4550,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/11\/sorting-out-my-home-backups.htm","url_meta":{"origin":657,"position":1},"title":"Sorting out my home backups","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Monday 5 November 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"After my parents-in-law's recent burglary (and related data loss), I started to think more seriously about my household's backups which are spread across a variety of USB drives, NAS units and cloud services (Dropbox, SkyDrive, Box.net, etc.). My plan is to: Duplicate - hard drives fail. I know, because I've\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Technology&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Technology","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/topic\/technology"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":743,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/mac-os-x-keyboard-shortcuts.htm","url_meta":{"origin":657,"position":2},"title":"Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Tuesday 13 March 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"After my backup hard disk failed a couple of weeks ago, I needed to be sure that a hard reset of my Mac hadn't damaged anything so I fired the machine up in single user mode and ran AppleJack. As it happened, there was nothing wrong, but there's no harm\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Apple Mac OS X\"","block_context":{"text":"Apple Mac OS X","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/mac-os-x"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":782,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/05\/defragmenting-a-mac-os-x-hard-disk.htm","url_meta":{"origin":657,"position":3},"title":"Defragmenting a Mac OS X hard disk","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Sunday 6 May 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Apple claims that OS X is the world's most advanced operating system. If that's the case, then why does it lack basic system utilities? That's a rhetorical question, but I've written before about OS X's lack of a decent backup utility and today (including most of tonight - hence the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Apple Mac OS X\"","block_context":{"text":"Apple Mac OS X","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/mac-os-x"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":757,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/03\/showing-hidden-files-in-mac-os-x.htm","url_meta":{"origin":657,"position":4},"title":"Showing hidden files in Mac OS X","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Tuesday 27 March 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I use hidden files (such as .htaccess) extensively on my website, so I needed to be sure that they were included with my local backup copy. Mac OS X doesn't show hidden files by default (it all gets a bit messy otherwise - although they are visible in a Terminal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Apple Mac OS X\"","block_context":{"text":"Apple Mac OS X","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/mac-os-x"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":915,"url":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/10\/secure-online-backup-from-mozy.htm","url_meta":{"origin":657,"position":5},"title":"Secure online backup from Mozy","author":"Mark Wilson","date":"Saturday 13 October 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"A few weeks back I was discussing backups with a couple of my colleagues. I've commented before that, despite nearly losing all of my digital photos and my entire iTunes library, I'm really bad at backing up my data (it's spread across a load of PCs and I almost never\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Storage\"","block_context":{"text":"Storage","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/tag\/storage"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}