Second Coming of Apple

[poorgradstudent]

In addition to Time Machine, I would strongly recommend picking up a copy of SuperDuper!

This program allows you to make a clone of your hard drive in an external hard drive so that *if* something happens, you can simply swap the drives out and continue as if nothing happened. This solution works best for laptops.

I've never really been able to get into Time Machine. There was something cumbersome about it, at least to me. I use Backblaze for that capacity, and it does allow you to fetch older versions of files although that's never been something that I've used.