{"id":610,"date":"2007-05-07T00:04:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-07T07:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.macnightowl.com\/2007\/05\/07\/newsletter-388-preview-a-religion-for-all-mac-users-backups\/"},"modified":"2008-03-25T15:16:06","modified_gmt":"2008-03-25T22:16:06","slug":"newsletter-388-preview-a-religion-for-all-mac-users-backups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2007\/05\/newsletter-388-preview-a-religion-for-all-mac-users-backups\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter #388 Preview: A Religion for All Mac Users: Backups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to tell you that, when Steve Jobs released some pathetic figures about the number of Mac users who backup their files, I wasn&#8217;t terribly surprised at the unfortunate news. 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