Security & Privacy

We often remind you how important it is to back up your files, and recommend that you use Personal Backup X5 for all your backup needs: regular backups, clones of your startup volume, synchronization of folders and volumes, and more. If you don’t back up your files, you may lose your personal documents, some of which are replaceable, but what happens when you lose all your kids’ pictures? You can never replace them. Or that music you bought from iTunes or Amazon? Unless you have backups, you’ll need to pay for it again.

But backing up, as the title of this article suggests, is only half the job. Let’s say a disaster happens: you look for a file or folder on your Mac, and it’s gone. No problem! Since you’ve been diligently running backups, you have a copy. if you lose some files, you want to be able to restore them quickly, and get them back in the right place (or not). With Personal Backup X5, you can choose which of your files you restore; you don’t need to restore an entire backup.

If you’ve just lost a file or folder, this means you can get them back quickly. Also, you have two options for the restoration location: you can restore the files to their original locations, or you can restore to a different location, to avoid overwriting existing files. (This is useful if you’ve lost some files in a folder, but want to check each file rather than simply replace the folder, to make sure that any newer files are retained.) You can use Personal Backup X5’s Restore function to restore files from backups to any location: an external disc, a server, or an optical disc.

You can find individual files or folders by either searching manually in the tree structure, or by using the search box; enter a text to whittle down the contents of your backup and find that file that went missing.

Make sure you back up regularly, but make sure that your back up your files with a tool that can help you restore your backups when you need them.