Apple includes its own backup app on every Mac. Called Time Machine, it's the easiest way to back up your Mac to an external hard drive. Dec 04, 2018 Here are the best ways to back up your Mac. There are a lot of ways to ensure your files don’t get lost, and almost all of them involve keeping a copy of your files somewhere else. Even better is keeping one copy somewhere handy for problems like lost files or failing equipment and another copy somewhere offsite. Here are the best ways to back up your Mac. There are a lot of ways to ensure your files don’t get lost, and almost all of them involve keeping a copy of your files somewhere else. Even better is keeping one copy somewhere handy for problems like lost files or failing equipment and another copy somewhere offsite. Select the “Back up all of the data on your device to this Mac” to store backups on your Mac. Select the ““Encrypt local backup” checkbox to encrypt your backup data and protect it with a password. To change your password later, click Change Password. Click Back Up Now. If your Mac runs macOS 10.15 or later, you can also restore via Finder. However, if you need to recover iPhone or iPad backup data from an older computer, transfer it to a different machine, or track it down on a remote backup drive, you’ll have to do some digging.
Most Windows users know how important it is to always have a recent backup on hand in case their PC’s hard drive or SSD goes south on them or some other disaster strikes.
Well truth be told, it’s just as important to keep the hard drive or SSD in your Mac backed up as well.
Luckily, your Mac is equipped with a fantastic backup utility called Time Machine, and it’s very easy to use. Just follow the steps below to create regular backups and/or restore your files if the need ever arises.
How to back up your Mac with Time Machine…
1 – Plug an external hard drive into your Mac’s USB, FireWire, or Thunderbolt port (depending on the type of interface the drive supports).
2 – If a window pops up asking if you want to use the external drive to back up with Time Machine, click Use as Backup Disk.
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Note: You’ll have the option to encrypt the contents of the backup if you want. Just be sure not to lose the password if you choose to use encryption!
3 – If you aren’t asked if you want to use the external drive to back up with Time Machine, click the Apple icon on the left-hand side of the top menu bar.
4 – Click System Preferences>Time Machine.
5 – Click Select Backup Disk, then choose a backup disk from the list and click Use Disk.
That’s all there is to it. Time Machine will now start creating automatic backups on a preset schedule.
If you want to create a backup right now instead of waiting for the first scheduled backup to begin, simply select Back Up Now from the Time Machine menu.
How to restore your Mac from a Time Machine backup…
After you have at least one Time Machine backup stored on your external drive you’ll be able to use it to restore your system if something goes wrong.
You can choose from two different kinds of restore procedures: Restore specific files and Restore the entire drive.
If you just need to restore a specific file (or several for that matter), follow these steps:
1 – Open the Time Machine utility.
2 – Select the file(s) you wish to restore.
3 – Click Restore.
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That’s all there is to it. Now you know how to use Apple’s handy Time Machine utility to back up and/or restore your Mac’s hard drive or SSD.
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You can use Time Machine, the built-in backup feature of your Mac, to automatically back up all of your files, including apps, music, photos, email, documents, and system files. When you have a backup, you can restore files from your backup if the original files are ever deleted from your Mac, or the hard disk (or SSD) in your Mac is erased or replaced.
Create a Time Machine backup
To create backups with Time Machine, all you need is an external storage device. After you connect the device and select it as your backup disk, Time Machine automatically makes hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups for all previous months. The oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk is full.
Connect an external storage device
Connect one of the following external storage devices, sold separately. Learn more about backup disks that you can use with Time Machine.
- External drive connected to your Mac, such as a USB, Thunderbolt, or FireWire drive
- External drive connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station (802.11ac model) or AirPort Time Capsule
- AirPort Time Capsule
- Mac shared as a Time Machine backup destination
- Network-attached storage (NAS) device that supports Time Machine over SMB
Select your storage device as the backup disk
When you connect an external drive directly to your Mac, you might be asked if you want to use the drive to back up with Time Machine. Select Encrypt Backup Disk (recommended), then click Use as Backup Disk.
An encrypted backup is accessible only to users with the password. Learn more about keeping your backup disk secure.
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If Time Machine doesn't ask to use your drive, follow these steps to add it manually:
- Open Time Machine preferences from the Time Machine menu in the menu bar. Or choose Apple () menu > System Preferences, then click Time Machine.
- Click Select Backup Disk (or Select Disk, or Add or Remove Backup Disk):
- Select your external drive from the list of available disks. Then select ”Encrypt backups” (recommended) and click Use Disk:
Apple key macbook pro. If the disk you selected isn't formatted as required by Time Machine, you're prompted to erase the disk first. Click Erase to proceed. This erases all information on the backup disk.
Best Way To Backup Mac
Enjoy the convenience of automatic backups
After you select a backup disk, Time Machine immediately begins making periodic backups—automatically and without further action by you. The first backup may take a long time, depending on how many files you have, but you can continue using your Mac while a backup is underway. Time Machine backs up only the files that changed since the previous backup, so future backups will be faster.
To start a backup manually, choose Back Up Now from the Time Machine menu in the menu bar. Use the same menu to check the status of a backup or skip a backup in progress.
Learn more
- If you back up to multiple disks, you can switch disks before entering Time Machine. Press and hold the Option key, then choose Browse Other Backup Disks from the Time Machine menu.
- To exclude items from your backup, open Time Machine preferences, click Options, then click the Add (+) button to add an item to be excluded. To stop excluding an item, such as an external hard drive, select the item and click the Remove (–) button.
- If using Time Machine to back up to a network disk, you can verify those backups to make sure they're in good condition. Press and hold Option, then choose Verify Backups from the Time Machine menu.
- In OS X Lion v10.7.3 or later, you can start up from your Time Machine disk, if necessary. Press and hold Option as your Mac starts up. When you see the Startup Manager screen, choose “EFI Boot” as the startup disk.