Apple makes this process easy for Mac users with the built-in Time Machine tool, which lets you back up your entire system and then restore individual files or the entire drive.

You can also browse your Time Machine drive as you would any other external hard drive using Finder by copying and pasting the files you want to recover. If you buy a new Mac or something happens ...

Time Machine is Apple's native utility ... with an excellent external storage drive solution. Pocket-lint has a dedicated article on some of the very best hard drives and solid state drives ...