Security & Privacy

Whether you use your Mac for work or at home, you devote a lot of time to creating and editing files, installing applications, and maintaining your Mac OS X system. If you use your computer at home, you may have banking records, e-mail archives, databases listing your possessions, school reports, or digital pictures of your family. At work, you certainly have documents and files that are essential for your job or business—reports, spreadsheets, databases and more. All these files are valuable, and many are irreplaceable.

If you don’t back up your files, you may have the unpleasant surprise of looking for some of them and discovering them missing or damaged. At that point there’s little you can do except feel guilty about not being more prudent—and make a resolution to back up your files more often.

There are many ways you can lose data, and each is a reason to regularly back up your files. Here are some ways that data can disappear from your Mac:

• You erase a file by accident.
• A program corrupts open files when it crashes.
• A power outage destroys the files you were working on at the time, possibly damaging the hard drive as well, destroying other files in the process.
• Your hard drive crashes or becomes damaged.
• Other computer components experience problems, indirectly affecting the contents of the hard drive.
• A virus infects your computer, irrecoverably destroying affected files. (Intego VirusBarrier X5 offers protection against this danger, and can also check your files while Personal Backup X5 copies them during backups).
• A hacker attacks your Mac, erasing some or all of its files, or corrupting them (Intego NetBarrier X5 provides protection against such attacks.)
• Someone steals your computer, and all its data.
• A fire, flood, earthquake, or other natural disaster destroys data on your hard drive.

Intego Personal Backup X5 protects you from such loss by making copies of your files so you can recover from losses caused by theft, error, disaster, or data corruption. And it continues to protect you through automated schedules that ensure you always have an up-to-date backup.