The BEST Backup Solution for Mac
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 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!
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!
Brilliant, professional lesson. Thanks a lot. You're clear, don't ramble, and show everything you talk about.
As a dj, photographer and vlogger, I am always looking for the best ways to store data. This was helpful!
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.
Loved this, helps a lot to use iCloud instead of fully relying on the time machine, great idea! Thank you
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.
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!!!
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.
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! 👍
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.
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!
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!
David, this video--alike all your others--was pellucid in the instruction. I learned some valuable tips.
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...
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.
Thank you! I have backed up all our Macs now. You make it easy.
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.
my favorite Chanel.... I just got a Mac, and I'm learning everything here!! Thanks
Amazing. Thank you so much- this is everything I needed! Ill be reaching out for some private help when I get my new equipment :)
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.
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.” 🍏
you are a wonderful teacher. Thank you for your lucid and up to the point instructions.
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 !!!
David, Thank you. As always, an excellent and clear tutorial, and one I need to do on my Mac.
Michael O’Brien
Thank you David - another great instructional video! 👍
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.
I find you simple to understand great channel I'm trying to watch the adds so you get paid, didn't know about that.
Thank-you very much! Clear and Concise video. Worked perfectly! Thank-you. We may need your services.
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!
That was so VERY Helpful! THANK YOU!!
David A Cox is the man!!! Great videos and super informative.
Most Helpful, Thank You, Happy New Year.
Already doing much of this but it’s great to know I’m doing the right thing.
Great info, thanks. And yes - lovely eyes! Feels a bit daggy saying “class” but otherwise, excellent!
Needed this. Thank you so much!
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
very helpful! thanks David!
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
Haven’t watched in a while but, great new camera!
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!
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 mate from Australia for your great info.
Another Great class....thanks teach!
Great video David thanks for sharing
Excellent tutorial. Thank you.
Very clear and helpful! Thank you
thank you so much, man! you are a literal lifesaver.
Thank you - this is very helpful.
A useful refresher - 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
Thanks for the video David! Does Time Machine backup everything including OS like a clone of my Mac?
Yes
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.
Thank you for your help
Steven
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 ?
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!
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.
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.
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 useful information ! :)
Finally I think I get it, thank you!
Thanks for an easy to follow tutorial. Do you do one on audio out my microphone does not work on Zoom meetings?
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.
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.
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.
Im so glad I found your videos!
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. :)
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!!
Great video and information thanks 👍👍🇬🇧
Hi David,
Which Mac NAS drive would you recommend, since the Apple Time Capsule was discontinued.
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?
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.
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.
@@PendeltonWhiskey Or LSD 😁
He's got one of those 'circular' spot lights that surround the camera lens facing him. You can see it reflected around his irises.
Did the author of this video really pin this comment because it was a compliment? lol
Vain af
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!
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!
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
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 🙏
I use Time Machine to back up to 2 different hard drives combined with using Backblaze online backup. Time Machine has saved me a few times. If you have a lot of files I don't think I would be using icloud. Backblaze is unlimited data for only $50 a year if you pay a year at a time.
Great Help - 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.
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.
Thanks for your video. Just one question - any reason why you didn’t encrypt your time machine backup?
Hi David. Thank you for the informative video. I have a question about your presentation on backing up on iCloud. How one knows your information on your computer (i.e. Document and Desktop Folders) are safe with a third party such as Apple?? WIth all the "hacking" the information that goes around the world, this has been my primary concerns on backing up any information on the cloud-- including iCloud. Please explain. Thank you.
I have cloned my mac’s primary drive to bootable external SSDs /hard drives using Superduper. If i feel particularly paranoid, I’ll put a copy in the safe or safe deposit box. Cloud drives are too expensive for the amount of data and none are immune from being hacked.
I agree that iCloud drives are too expensive, at $9.99 per month. Far too much money! I'll try Superduper as you suggest. Thanks. And thanks for this video, as it does have good information if you don't need to backup very much data.
Very good video thank you
This is what I needed. I am definitely gonna ask for help
The Time Machine Editor is a great app, thanks. It is so nice not hearing external drive doing an hourly back-up, but do have another question. Is it possible to have Time Machine Drive drive sleep between daily back-ups? Thanks, again.
David, do you suggest using the USB-C as a backup for Carbon Copy Cloner? Convenient in an emergency/catastrophe when evacuating home. Hurricane season is almost upon us in Florida and this would be handy for leaving on our house keychain or near door to leave home.
Thank you for all your video! I have a question: All my musical library comes from purchase on Itunes or my own CD's synchronized couple of years ago with all my devices. I have paid until that time Music Match. I rarely buy music. Do I have to subscribe to Music Match in order to have it on all my devices? If I put my library in the Cloud, I have to pay for that every year? Thank you for your help!
I use Backblaze as my primary back up, then a FIREPROOF/ WATERPROOF 3TB iOSafe drive (bolted down) as a secondary, then Time machine to a Time capsule as a third backup. I also keep an additional backup of certain files (pictures, videos, music) to a 8TB (4TB effective) MyCloud Mirror RAID that I can access over the internet from anywhere.
I also use Time Machine to a Time Capsule, what I would like is an option on the Time Capsule to back itself up to a cloud storage, ever heard of this? My Macs sync themselves every day, the Time Capsule should take care of itself.
@@BrianBoniMakes You could get Carbon Copy Cloner and set it up to do this I think.
I make it exactly as you recommend, David, but I have an additional automatic step for my ripped music: iTunes Match. All my ripped CDs live - of course - in iTunes and trough the iTunes Match subscription they are available on all my devices as well as backed up in the iCloud (albeit not visible over icloud.com and not consuming any space on my iCloud). I think iTunes Match is worth far more than the 24 € they charge me a year.
BTW: You should revaluate keychain again! I find it far less complicated than any of these password managers and it has all their advantages including Face-ID integration and secure password generation. Even a warning for double use of identical passwords is integrated since Mojave. And it's free and from Apple (the only company I trust regarding my data).
Perfect - again...thanks.
I love your videos!!! and I love keychain
Yo i love the content‼️‼️🗣🚫🧢but any more sources besides icloud?
Awesome...thanks 😊
Adding to the customer consensus: extremely well presented. What a relief! But… I don’t understand why iCloud does not back up the Pictures folder. Not only that, but I don’t see the omission mentioned in any video or support dock (including your otherwise truly excellent clip). What gives? I need those pictures backed up too (and I don’t use the Photos app)