
The concept behind backup software is pretty simple: Make a copy of your files on storage separate from your main hard drive. These features and services are all well worth using, but they have some limitations, lacking some of the extra benefits you get from running standalone backup software. Both also offer some cloud backup, with iCloud and OneDrive, as well. Windows 10 and Windows 11 include a File History feature and a full disk backup feature, and macOS includes its Time Machine software.

Backup software and services do just that.īoth Windows and macOS have beefed up their built-in backup tools in recent years. Your business documents and your files, photos, videos, and music all deserve to be protected.

Glitches happen, and so do hacks, theft, and physical damage to a device.
