We’ll round-up the best Mac backup options to help you. These include Time Machine, which Apple builds into every Mac with OS X. Users can also backup selective data with things like iCloud, manual backup or file syncing services. Third parties also offer complete and partial backup solutions. ![]() 3 Effective Ways to Backup Your Mac/Macbook Data Due to its simplicity as well as the lightness, Mac computer has been regarded as a powerful working tool for quite a long time. You may store some important information like photos, contacts, messages or some other files in your Mac so that you can get them at any time. However, those files will not be returned once your Mac is lost or damaged. Maybe many of you have experienced that terrible situation. ![]() In this case, what can you do to prevent the loss of files? Actually, as long as you have backed up your Mac in advance, the file can be retrieved when there is something wrong with your computer. In this article, we will show you 3 different backup methods for your Mac with or without external hard drive. You can pick the one that works best for you. Backup Mac Part 1. How to Backup Mac with External Hard Drive Backup Mac with Time Machine Mac system has a professional built-in backup tool named 'Time Machine'. You just need to connect an external hard drive to the Mac computer and set up your Time Machine. After those processes completed, your Mac can be backed up automatically with Time Machine. Here we will show you the concrete instructions step by step: Step 1 Plug in an external hard drive to your Mac. Step 2 Launch 'Disk Utility' and make sure your hard drive is properly formatted for macOS Step 3 Select 'System Preferences' from the Apple menu and choose the 'Time Machine' icon. Step 4 Turn on 'Time Machine' and select your hard drive Step 5 Check the 'Back Up Automatically' box in order to automatically back up your Mac to your chosen disks. After those operations, your Mac will be backed up to your external hard drive automatically. Moreover, next time you connect this hard drive to your Mac, Time Machine will backup your data automatically without any extra settings. If your Mac were damaged or lost, you can restore your Mac data with this hard drive as well as the Time Machine on another computer. Your backup data will be lost once your hard drive is destroyed or lost. When your hard disk memory is full, Time Machine will automatically delete the oldest backup files, which will cause the data loss. 3.You cannot choose the backup file species with Time Machine. The whole Mac data will be backed up with this tool. How to Backup Your Mac/Macbook to iCloud If you don't have the hard drive with enough storage, you can backup your Mac data to iCloud. In this situation, you just need to log into your iCloud account and you can preview and restore the data you want from the iCloud.
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