The BEST Backup Solution for Mac
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 มิ.ย. 2024
- What is the BEST way to backup your Mac? The best solution for you 5 years ago may not be the best method today! The BEST backup solution must be able to withstand any kind of disaster. Today, David is going to teach you how to use a combination of two methods to make sure all your most important data on your Mac is properly backed up.
This class was taught on a Mac running MacOS Mojave (in case it looks different)
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It goes without saying that it is important to back up your data, but with so many methods out there, which is right for you? If EVERY electronic you owned were destroyed... could you still get back your data?
The solution David recommends involves using a combination of iCloud (specifically iCloud Drive and the Photo Library feature) along with a Time Machine backup for safety (just in case anything ever happened to your data on the cloud).
How do you backup your Mac? Let us know in the comments section!
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Thank you, dear David. I'm 75 years old from Venezuela and I can follow up your tutorials without any problem. You are a very good teacher
Being a senior, the apple youtube videos that you share with us are easy to understand. You speak slowly and clearly and make it enjoyable to learn new things. Keep up the great work. Regards, Richard R.
I'm a college student and I agree!
I'm a senior as well and I totally agree.
I'm so glad you share all your imac wisdom with us on TH-cam. Thanks so much!
As a dj, photographer and vlogger, I am always looking for the best ways to store data. This was helpful!
Your tutorials are honestly THE best in youtube when it comes to mac computers. Please keep doing what you are doing and keep up the good work. You are very knowledgable and they way you teach makes understanding everything very simple and cohesive. Thank you once again as a fellow student, we all appreciate you.
I appreciate that!
Loved this, helps a lot to use iCloud instead of fully relying on the time machine, great idea! Thank you
Brilliant, professional lesson. Thanks a lot. You're clear, don't ramble, and show everything you talk about.
Thank you for taaching on this topic! It is very helpful, having some confusion about the best way to back up and use Time Machine!
This is the most well put together computer help video I think I have ever seen. Great job!!!
David, this video--alike all your others--was pellucid in the instruction. I learned some valuable tips.
Great Video David, I'm glad you mentioned this option, so many people now a days would definitely benefit from this. If I may make a future video suggestion, please consider making a video on how to use the terminal to get some task done, or see some information. I know it maybe something most people subscribed to you might not really know about, but I believe it'll be a great thing to learn and I'm sure most people would enjoy it.
Thank you! I have backed up all our Macs now. You make it easy.
Love your videos. So clear, concise and full of GREAT information!!!
David, you know that good feeling you get when you walk in a apartment store and as soon as you walk in the door, whatever you were going there you find it immediately? Well, this is what this video was like for me. It was "exactly" what I was looking for. I think I will be reaching out to you for a private lesson on some other things..... Thanks, and great videos.
you are a wonderful teacher. Thank you for your lucid and up to the point instructions.
Thanks David. As usual that was great. Well explained and very easy to follow. Thank God for people like you. What I like about your tech talks is they are well explained and relatively simple to follow, and for me they need to be. Not everyone can be academic and it’s fantastic to know we can go somewhere that helps us understand a little more. Thank you so very much for all your help. God bless you sir.
Brilliant. You’re the only person besides me who seems to know about Magic Window. I’ve been using it for years. I even had a stand for my iPhone on my desk so I could watch the changes. Love Magic Window.
Thanks for the great video! I set up my iCloud backup and reformatted an external drive that was acting up. Your info was helpful and easy to follow. Keep up with the great work! 👍
Definitely agree and have used the small thumb drives for backup. I however have had great luck with keychain for years. Works straight out across my devices. And it’s free. The other apps are expensive and mostly subscriptions. Thanks for this important topic and your clear way of explaining it.
my favorite Chanel.... I just got a Mac, and I'm learning everything here!! Thanks
David...you truly do a SUPERB job in many your videos. I've owned Apple products for years and STILL learn a great deal when I watch your material. GOOD ON YOU sir! Many thanks!
Thank you David - another great instructional video! 👍
Thank you - this is very helpful.
Needed this. Thank you so much!
Thank you for your help
Steven
David, Thank you for another very informative video for us Mac owners.
I would like to use iCloud but for me and my family it’s just too expensive. Guess I’ll have to use the external drive option.
Perhaps you might do a video on using a NAS for cloud storage?
Thanks again!
Amazing. Thank you so much- this is everything I needed! Ill be reaching out for some private help when I get my new equipment :)
Excellent tutorial. Thank you.
very helpful! thanks David!
Great video David thanks for sharing
Thanks again David you are my favorite go to instructor to learn about my Mac Pro Big Sur !!!!!! I always learn so much from your lessons !!! By far the best instructor on Mac and many other subjects on You Tube !!!! Salutations !!!
Thanks David. As usual, your videos are full of interesting and useful information. My Timemachine has been saying its full for ages, but I didn’t know what to do other than get another external hard drive. Now I’ll see about backing it all up to iCloud.
By the way, where did you get that amazing wallpaper on your Mac? It’s great. Keep up the good work.
That was so VERY Helpful! THANK YOU!!
Most Helpful, Thank You, Happy New Year.
Another Great class....thanks teach!
A useful refresher - thank you.
I find you simple to understand great channel I'm trying to watch the adds so you get paid, didn't know about that.
Already doing much of this but it’s great to know I’m doing the right thing.
David, Thank you. As always, an excellent and clear tutorial, and one I need to do on my Mac.
Michael O’Brien
Very clear and helpful! Thank you
Thanks mate from Australia for your great info.
David A Cox is the man!!! Great videos and super informative.
Hi David. I can’t thank you for all the great information that you’ve been putting out there to help us. Thank you! Thank you!! And thank you!!! With your great information, I can do so much with my Mac and Apple products related and never walk in the dark again. Just one topic may I suggest that is useful but many tend to ignore including myself. This topic is “CONTACT” on Apple. I got so much contacts including Facebook and other stuff on there and sometimes when I do a search for the contact that I need, I couldn’t find it. But if I make a call, it shows under the contact but unsearchable. What I want is to have an ultimate contact lists that I control and when i need it, I can find it easily. I don’t want Facebook contacts to be there. Please help on this topic. Thanks Dave in advance. Peace and Blessings...
Thank-you very much! Clear and Concise video. Worked perfectly! Thank-you. We may need your services.
Great Help - Thanks
Haven’t watched in a while but, great new camera!
thank you so much, man! you are a literal lifesaver.
Finally I think I get it, thank you!
I don't know why some people click on the thumbs down icon. I think you are brilliant (and handsome with it) You have helped me many times. Thank you from Bonnie Scotland.
Wow thank you so much I learned so much I have a 2011 iMac and the time machine said it a full didnt know what to do
Dave, You are the best! I've spent hours with Apple support trying to get migrated from another Mac to a new Mac mini. They could not help me! But YOU did. Using iCloud was the best and by far the simplest way to do this. I'm a huge fan of yours as you've helped me learn bunch of stuff about the Mac. Thank you so much. And BTW, I noticed that it looks like your photos were taken at a Pride event, parade or something.
Very good video thank you
Im so glad I found your videos!
This was excellent and helped me a lot, so thanks very much. You might think about updating it though to reflect the latest Mac OS as there are now quite a few differences. I am currently running Ventura 13.1. Luckily, I was able to figure everything out because Macs are so wonderfully intuitive to use.
Great video and information thanks 👍👍🇬🇧
Great info, thanks. And yes - lovely eyes! Feels a bit daggy saying “class” but otherwise, excellent!
Thanks for the useful information ! :)
Hi David, great video!
Regarding Photos and the part about leaving the computer ON: I find this extremely important subsequent to major updating, i.e. most recently, OS Mojave and iOS. Since Apple doesn’t make it very clear there’s an image update going on in the background, you’ll need to open Photos and scroll way down to the bottom in order to bring up the image counter and view its progress. When the count has completed, compare it across all of your devices AND iCloud.... This used to drive me crazy, as subsequent to a major update, I tend to shoot a few test images to confirmation sync. Most recently, syncing my images between my three devices (iPhone, iPad Pro, and MacBook Pro) seemed impossible. Once I knew of the image count going on in the background, I became more aware of needing to leave the computer ON until the update is complete. However, I wish Apple would move the image counter in Photos so you don’t need to scroll it into view, or at least add a notification that Photos is updating so you know there’s something going on before shutting-down.
For my purposes, the Photos app is useful - consider me an average consumer and not a pro. However, I’ve used the app from early-on, when it was “iPhoto.” With several updates since then, I’ve noticed that Apple will make major revisions to the app without any kind of warning to its end-users, leaving you to figure things out on your own. ... Suddenly, without knowing it, you’ve become an Apple “Beta Tester.” 🍏
David, Another absolutely great presentation and informational video! You never cease to amaze me! I’m still learning (slowly) Mac OS and therefore send anyone who asks about how to use it to you!
Q- Does Time Machine do a FULL backup (OS, apps, settings and all data created) to an external device so that if I must replace the drive I could somehow (??) reinstall the OS etc? I guess I’m looking for something that makes a perfect image drive (replace the HD and it works once the new HD is recognized)?
Thank you again for the Great content!
Perfect - again...thanks.
Great quality training. Thanks n
Awesome...thanks 😊
I love your videos!!! and I love keychain
Hi David can I ask are the private lessons held remotely? I loved this video in fact all your videos thank you for being so generous with your time
keychain is great. all you need to do to find your passwords is go into preferences in safari. on iphone it’s in settings. the two sources sync pretty reliably.
one of the best tutor online
Thanks!
Fantastic! Lesson!
Thank you so much
Awesome Video David! Do you necessarily have to erase the external hard drive that you want to use for Time Machine? I have some photos already on it. Still lots of room left. Thanks!
Thanks
Time machine saved my butt when I first got my Mac years ago. I had been fiddling around creating multiple user accounts and forgot the Administrator I.D. I simply went back to before the screw up and was able to log in , and fix it . I use a triple system now...Icloud , time machine and an SSD that I update weekly.
This is what I needed. I am definitely gonna ask for help
Glad I found this, I was looking for a solution to back up my video files. I was wondering If my time machine drive could be the second drive in a daisy chain (first drive hooked up to my computer, second time machine hooked up to my first drive)? I'm assuming they would just need the same connection types. Thank you.
6:38 on keychain: I use another password manager for passwords in general. I do sync keychain to iCloud though mainly for one reason: wifi passwords are synced between phone, ipad and laptops... very convenient
This guy is the best!!
Hey David Goodmorning Phoenix Arizona. Is this your most current video about backing up at Mack? I guess my question is can I use this in May 2023? I’m looking to get all my MacBook Pro back ups dialed in and the proper manner. Thank you. I really like your videos in classes.
Hey David, thanks for another great video! One question though. In backing up to iCloud, you said not to put videos in the documents or desktop area because it will slow down the backup, so then, where do we backup those? Only on an external? Which means at the very least there will be two backup areas. Correct?
Thanks for an easy to follow tutorial. Do you do one on audio out my microphone does not work on Zoom meetings?
awesome Dave...
My apologies again considered when you posted this tutorial! As I mentioned previously, I'm desperately trying to retrieve a super important document so I'm just reaching out to everyone and any one who might be able to troubleshoot for this in Time Machine!
This is the way I do it too. Primary is iCloud, with Time Machine as well. I used to use Carbonite, but since I needed the iCloud space for my photo collection (see other video comment I made), I decided to go with this. The only thing I miss from Carbonite is historical backup. If you accidentally nuke a file on the desktop, it's gone from the cloud, too. Carbonite allowed you to recover from mistakes like that.
Anyway, the other thing you mention about video projects outside the cloud directories is something I had to do too. Found that one out on my own. ha. :)
Great video! I have one question. Can I save all my photos and videos in ICloud and after delete them from my Mac?
I want my Mac clean with more space
Thanks in advance 🙏
Thanks David, another great video, but I just wish Apple would separate the Desktop & Documents option, I don’t want to backup my desktop to iCloud.
Excellent...when you have a moment can you explain how you would set iCloud backup for a family...I would like to have my wife's computer and ipad backed up to my cloud account...many thanks
I just saw this great video! Love it! I do have a question though, I have 1 iCloud account that I use for both my personal (2 MacBooks) and my work iMac. I work for a electric company so they own the iMac. I turned everything for iCloud because I don't want my personal and professional documents mixed up. What would you advise on this type of setup? thank you very much!!
Hi David,
Which Mac NAS drive would you recommend, since the Apple Time Capsule was discontinued.
Great video! Very clear and helpful! P.s. you do have the most amazing eyes!
Lorraine Coulso
I think that's an effect from using LCD lighting. I'm seeing it more and more on youtube.
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He's got one of those 'circular' spot lights that surround the camera lens facing him. You can see it reflected around his irises.
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Hi David, may I ask something about an external hard drive to make backups? Is it a good idea to make some partition of the drive to separate programs and applications from documents? I will use an external drive for the first time in my life, and I'd like to do it in a proper manner. Thanks a lot for all the efforts you do to share your knowledge.
Thanks for the tip. I use Time Machine with the editor for quite a while. Regarding the backup on iCloud: I have 1TB of data... I suppose I need then to purchase additional space on iCloud to back it up ?
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Hi David, I’m looking to purchase a Drobo and I remembered you doing a review of it but searching your channel, I couldn’t find it. Do you still recommend Drobo as an external storage solution for content creators? Thank you for any feedback. Love your tutorials and advice!
Thanks for the vid-very helpful. I have a MacBook & use MS 365 office suit. Is it possible to put this on the icloud or is this pointless? Thanks
Tack!
Nice video. Just want to point out that icloud is not a real backup though as if you deleted something by mistake it's gone. Also USB drives are much more prone to not working so it is not good as back up. Something with versioning like crash plan which is like time machine online and using a regular external hard disk would be more reliable I think.
Great video as usual. Noticed it looked like you were running Malwarebytes on your computer. I ran it on my old computer because the technician at the Genius Bar mentioned about running it for the free trial to check for viruses when I was having issues on the old computer. I was thinking of maybe installing it on my new 2018 MacBook Pro I purchased this past August but wasn’t sure if it was worth paying for after the free trial. Also if it’s worth buying it I wonder if there’s a teacher student discount version. How would you recommend transferring applications and other important files pictures etc. from my old Macbook pro to my new 2018 MacBook Pro. I did not do time machine on my old computer and I currently have my new computer up and running after a few months so it would be hard to put the back up from the old to the new one. I have my files put on various cloud back up is like dropbox, box, Google drive etc. Though I’m not sure how to move the applications over some of them were downloaded on the computer and others were put on using the CD.
Thanks for your video and explanation. Very well done! Just a quick question which confuses me a bit. For example the documents/folder they get duplicated when enabling it in icloud. So where do I have to change a document for examplewhich one is the basis´or does it not matter? How do I have to proceed if I want to disable icloud again without loosing my files? Thanks!
i have been using a time capsule to backup a iMac and a macbook pro , i have another time capsule and was wondering if i should use one for the desktop and the other one for the macbook or continue to use the one for both? also the desktop is a 2020 iMac i purchased this week.thanks.💚🍏
Hi David...1st off...Love your Mac info videos.....question:......I have a 4tb external drive that I want to back up my Mac desktop on but I would also like to use it for GoPro videos and videos that I create on IMovie.......would either have an effect with one another if they were on the same external drive?....Thanks.
Great video. And a good news that it is possible to save all the data in icloud. However, how much is the size that can be used in icloud drive? Is it only 5GB, I mean for free?