We’ve all seen, if not experienced, a broken iPhone or iPad. It’s fast, easy, and inexpensive to get started, and we’re happy to help. So please, back up your Mac before something goes wrong. With the 2018 MacBook Pro, however, Apple removed that port, so only data recovery specialists like DriveSavers can recover data from such damaged machines, and only then if they have the user’s password. To simplify last-ditch data recovery, Apple put a special port on the MacBook Pro’s logic board and provided a custom recovery tool for Apple Authorized Service Providers. Data recovery got harder with solid-state storage, and even more so with the introduction of the first MacBook Pro with Touch Bar, thanks to Apple’s new T2 encryption chip, which encrypts data on the drive. Historically, it was relatively easy to remove a drive from a broken Mac and recover the data from it. What happens if you don’t back up and your Mac gets damaged such that you can’t access important data? That’s when things get expensive, and if you have a 2018 MacBook Pro, you have even fewer options.
Finally, since a fire or flood would likely destroy your backup drive along with your Mac, we always recommend an offsite backup made via an Internet backup service like Backblaze. More generally, backing up with Time Machine ensures that you can not only restore your entire drive if necessary, but also easily recover a previous version of a corrupted file. On the Mac side, there are plenty of ways to back up, and a bootable duplicate made with SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner is the best insurance right before you upgrade to macOS 10.14 Mojave. If you’re thinking “What could go wrong?” the answer is, “Lots, and wouldn’t you like to be able to revert instantly if something does?” Mac Backups But one time when backups are especially important is before you upgrade to a major new operating system.
Backups are always important, since you can never predict when your Mac or iPhone will be lost or stolen, melt in a fire, or just break. Poll a room of Apple experts about the one topic they can’t stop talking about and many will launch into frustrated rants about how too few people back up.
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