Mac OS X Leopard, Snow Leopard & Time Machine®
Apple's Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) and beyond features Time Machine, an easy-to-use, automated local backup solution for Mac computer users. By connecting a second hard drive to your computer and configuring the System Preference, Time Machine® performs an initial full backup of your hard drive and then performs automatic hourly incremental backups. Time Machine® saves the hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month. We applaud Apple's commitment to this very important computer support function.
Offsite Backup - The Missing Link
While Time Machine® is an aggressive and positive step forward in performing local backups, it does not address the offsite component necessary to complete a proper backup plan to protect your valuable files. Getting your critical files offsite is a must! While purchasing extra hard drives and manually swapping those drives to get them offsite is one way to solve the problem, it is by no means the best way.
Enter Continuum ... the perfect complement
Enter BackJack's Continuum. The sole purpose of Continuum is to integrate tightly with Time Machine® to provide unprecedented, cost-effective, total backup protection and leverage the mature infrastructure of our award-winning offsite backup solution. The benefits are obvious with the most important being to eliminate the need to ensure the offsite component of your overall backup strategy is being met easily, conveniently, consistently, and securely. After the local backup is complete, BackJack's Continuum will kick in and complete your backup strategy by getting your critical files offsite. Continuum monitors Time Machine® for the daily backup to complete. Once Continuum detects the completion of this daily backup, it then begins your offsite backup automatically. And should some unfortunate disaster happen to your Mac, just re-install Continuum and recover your files from its offsite location. It's that simple!
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