The perfect backup system?

 A couple of weeks ago, my reliable MacBook Pro started to have some trouble.



Upon startup the display would show teal plaid, until switching to fuchsia plaid and crashing. The issue would fix itself upon restart, but it was clear that the laptop was heading to permanent plaid-dom. Fortunately, before the final crash, I was able to cobble together a quick backup to protect all the valuable datas (photos) stored on the hard drive. (For those who are interested, the plaid problem was due to a f...