How to Backup your Macbook Pro/Air/iMac

Indeed, even with the best quality devices like Apple’s Macs, it’s imperative to back up your data. No devices are capable of working all the time and there are many chances out there of device breakdown when a backup is essential to have (accidents, upgrading loss, or theft.)

Here are the steps on How to back up your Mac:

‘Two is one and one is none’ is a good verse to help remember the significance of keeping many backups. Including the data on your device and your backups, you must have at least 3 copies of your data.

I’ve seen people frustrated when they go to restore data from a backup and their only backup fails. If you have very important data then keeping one of your backups outside the device (cloud service, bank box, or friend’s house) is best in case of fire, flood, other natural disasters, or theft.

How to configure your Mac to backup:

• Set Back up on your Mac with Time Machine

Its easiest ways to set up automatic backups, the Time Machine software that already comes built-in to your Mac. Once programmed properly, your Mac will perform backup every hour for the past 24 hours to past month to your external backup drive.

You can use almost any external hard drive, but has to be formatted for macOS (MacOS journal, exFat) if it didn’t come that way from the manufacturer.

A Time Machine backup restore can restore a PC with all of your data precisely how it was in case of a lost, crashed, or damaged Mac or when moving up to another Mac. It can likewise reestablish all your records.

Steps to set up automatic backups with Time Machine on your Mac:

 

When you connect your external drive in your PC for the first time, this dialog box will appear Click Use as Backup Disk.

You’ll see in the middle area of the Time Machine window that your backup will start automatically. The Back up Automatically box will be checked by default.

You can also select the Show Time Machine in menu bar at the bottom of the Time Machine window to have quick access and control to Time Machines settings and info. You can choose to Back up Now if you don’t want to wait for the next scheduled one.

Also while using a MacBook the automatic backup will not start until you plug in your power adapter.

Once your backup starts you can see the details of your backup and a time approximation.

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