Its important for any user to make sure that they have a reliable and  simple to use backup solution for their OS. Just Imagine your hard drive dies and you lose everything. What would you do to have it back?

If you're looking for a  data backup application for Mac OS then I've gathered some of the best applications for MAC that are reliable and easy to use.

1. Bonkey

Bonkey is a highly recommended Mac application for backup purposes. It has lots of great features and it support Ftp, email along with Amazon S3, compression, encryption, scheduling, and synchronization. It'll even back up MS SQL server databases.

Bonkey is a simple to use backup system. It can backup to most storage devices, but it is specifically designed to be used with Amazon S3, which provides cheap online storage. You can also choose the files that needs to be backed up, set the destination and select how often it should make backup. Bonkey is totally free for non-commercial use.

Key features include

• Backup to multiple locations, including Amazon S3, SFTP, FTP, Windows shares, and local disks;
• Backup Microsoft SQL Server databases;
• Backup automatically at a set interval and at a set time if desired;
• Backup only modified files, or a snapshot of the files you select;
• Compress and encrypt files during backup;
• Be configured to email any errors during backup to you;
• Allow drag and drop transfers between different locations; and
• Show built-in help.

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2. JaBack

JaBack is a backup software specially designed to automate all your backup, synchronization, and archiving tasks. Just like Bonkey, it allows backup to FTP and email. It supports a flexible scheduler and has a file monitor function that will perform backup operations whenever changes are detected.

Key features include

• Automate Backups of your important files and folders.  The backup set is created in standard ZIP format.  This allows flexibility in restoring the data using any zip software to unzip the backup set.
• Transfer your backup set to a remote location via Ftp or Email it to your mail server.
• Scheduler software is very easy to use, yet has very powerful scheduling, tasking and automation capabilities.
• Email Notification of task failure based on task exit code.
• Local directory monitor allows you to backup data when a file/folder change is detected.
• Zip files and directories using wildcards on schedule.  Can append date/time to filename for archive purposes.
• Copy files and directories using wildcards on schedule.  Can append date/time to filename for archive purposes.

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3. Mathusalem

Mathusalem is an open source robust and unintrusive backup system for Mac OS X Leopard, which can be used either as a System Preferences pane or directly as a command line tool. It offers Offers FTP/SFTP, Amazon S3, WebDav, and SMB support for backups on OSX. It has the ability to compress to zip and dmg, resume failed uploads and and supports scheduling.

• Mathusalem supports a wide range of destinations: local drives, iDisk, WebDAV, AFP, SMB, FTP, SFTP or Amazon S3
• It can generate archives in various formats: sparse or compressed .dmg and CPIO or ZIP archives
• It generates fully self-contained backups i.e. data and settings which makes it possible to access them from any machine or even relocate them from one destination to another
• It can restart a download or upload that failed or was cancelled by the user without having to restart the entire backup
• It runs in low-priority mode on your machine so it doesn't hang your CPU or hard drive
• It runs only when necessary (it is managed by launchd like other system services)
• It is fully open-source which means no proprietary file formats (backup data files are plain XML)
• It stores passwords in the Keychain
• It reports detailed information on the backup progress
• The command line tool version can be integrated in custom workflows

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4.  Time Machine

Time Machine is an automatic backup application that’s built right into Mac OS X. t keeps an up-to-date copy of everything on your Mac including digital photos, music, movies, TV shows, and documents. Now, if you ever have the need, you can easily go back in time to recover anything.

With Time Machine all you have to do is connect an external drive to your Mac. when you’re asked if you want it to be your backup drive, click yes and Time Machine will take care of everything else automatically in the background. You’ll never have to worry about backing up again.