What do backups have to do with customizing your Mac? Everything. You should always have a backup of your Mac’s files in general and especially if you get into heavy customizing. What will you do if you need to go back to your default OS?

Here are two of the best free backup solutions out there:

SuperDuper

SuperDuper makes backing up your files well.. super duper easy. Just choose your drive you want to copy and select the drive to copy to. You can also upgrade to the registered verson ($27.95) from there you are free to you can update an existing clone with the latest data: use Smart Update and, minutes later, your backup is completely up to date.

Carbon Copy Cloner

Like SuperDuper Carbon Copy Cloner makes backing up, syncing and hard drive recovery a breeze. And its completly free giving you tons of features such as: Scheduled backups, achieves of deleted files and backing up to networked hard drives.

Backing up Your Mac is a post from: The Custom Mac