2016 Postmortem

The easiest way to back everything up on the Mac is to use the TimeMachine application that comes with the MacOS. It will keep everything backed up automatically so that you can easily go back in time and see your directories and files and earlier times. Get a 2TB or 4TB external hard drive, plug it into your Mac and follow the directions.

It is not perfect, but it is really good. At some time, but a second external drive and put the first one somewhere safe. Those disk drives are roughly $60-$100 each and well worth it. The only thing cheaper is to backup is to backup to DVD or maybe CD.

If you have any questions, ask here or send me an email.

BTW the machines I used when accessing DU and the rest of the Net are themselves in storage and have not been connected to the Net in a decade. My oldest systems and archives are over 40 yo. I still have my archives from the early days of USENET when we were fighting the original spam coming in alt.religion.scientology.