common' man, i'm not going to do all that stuff...just back up to a hard drive on a regular schedule...way too complicated dave...thumbs up for the advice...
I have a new 8tb drive coming today. As it is not SSD what do you choose as the format please? Mac OS Extended? Sorry, not a systems girl 😞 I like the idea of it being split for Time Machine and normal backup. I will carefully follow your instructions if I can see what format I need! It is to backup new MacBook Pro after my old lady 12 year old iMac became unstable. My files are on iCloud at the moment. Thank you.
Dang!! That is a good point, I asked my wife if we had something like that in our will. I do have my daughter setup as my legacy should, heaven forbid, something happen. But it is not in our will. My time machine is backed up to my NAS - it is encrypted. I do have iCloud on the family plan. But what about immutable backups, how would I deal with that. Of course, the recovery is only good if you back up frequently. There is always data "in-flight".
This is great stuff, very informative. Thank you! I did the Blackmagic disk speed test on the various external hard drives I have. Interestingly, my oldest hard drive gets the best read & write speeds of about 98 MB/s. Its format is MacOS Extended (Journaled). A pretty new hard drive I have only gets about 60 MB/s. I have it formatted as ExFAT. I couldn't even do the speed test on my last hard drive. This is the one I use together with time machine and its format is APFS (case sensitive). Any thoughts on why my speeds vary so much/why they aren't very impressive? Maybe the format type also plays a role? Thanks. :)
I watched a video somewhere, and it said to NOT mess with the part that says "internal." Well... I accidentally added and renamed something in Internal. I don't know what I did... and I don't know how to undo it ... and I don't know how serious this is. Can anyone help?
Meant constructively, and I'm sure you're correct me if I'm wrong, iCloud insist that it stores the data locally as well as online. It's why I stopped using iCloud. It does not save space locally, only Apple photos does that.
What if I have two separate laptops I want to back up? Everything on iCloud syncs between the two, but my music does not. Should I do a single time-machine for the laptop with more data on it, or should they have two separate backups, and if so should it be on two separate drives? Thanks!
Great video as usual! I've purchased a new Mac mini system and converting an old iMac to it-I'd like to book a 2 hour continieous session with you but before hand what do you recommend for a back up system? I'm looking at OWC 16TB ThunderBay 4 mini 4-Drive SSD Thunderbolt 3 RAID 5 Array or PROMISE Pegasus32 R4 16TB RAID System?
CLOUD - YIKES ( HOW ABOUT CRUCIAL {Brand }. 2Tb -4Tb SSD ). NOTE: I do watch many of your videos . I LEARNED HOW TO USE A MAC FROM YOUR VIDEOS AND STILL LEARNING. THANK YOU 👍
David, help! I’ve been in the industry for decades and have had a complete, redundant backup strategy that’s been great. I want to upgrade my macOS to Sequoia next year but found out my prime, daily backup software is no longer supported by its developer. PLEASE tell me what software I can use now that has the functionality of my old Tri-Edre BACKUP? All my data is kept on external drives and in the cloud in iDrive. CCC backs up my MacHD to a dedicated drive, with Tri-Edre BACKUP, I can back up an entire drive, partitions, or individual folders as needed to my other external drives. Thank you!!!
Thank you David this is all very useful. Noob here. I managed to do a backup of all my iCloud Photos folder to my external SSD. HOWEVER: when I went back to my local Photos drive, there were only a few hundred photos, compared to the thousands on my iCloud Drive. I am hesitant to go back to the next step to make the Mac Photo drive as the new System Photo Library, fearful that the new drive with limited photos will override the complete one. Will the iCloud Photos on my SSD be added back to the library on my Mac? (Pardon my ignorance here.)
With Mac OS X 14 I found it roughly only uses the same amount of storage on the external drive as on the internal - which is really annoying as I need at least 12-24 month of backups but ends up with it only using 2.5TB out of 4TB - This is down to APFS handling of snapshots but a catch out if you need to keep a certain minimum of month back
Hi David, Thank for for all of your informative videos. I really appreciate them. When testing HD speed using the Black Magic Speed Test app, how can I tell if it is testing my external HD and not my internal drive? I'm using an M1 Mac Mini.
Perfect timing. My Time Machine drive just failed!! Purchased a Crucial X9 Pro 4TB SSD (amazingly quick and very small). I followed your instructions, and my mac says it saves an encrypted 1st copy onto an unencrypted disk. Any reason why you suggested an unencrypted disk?
To switch back to Photo Library on Local Hard Drive, do I need to "Download Originals to this Mac" again? If so, these would be the steps from the start: Downloading photos to Manual Backup 1. Double Click "Manual Backup" 2. Double Click "Photos Library" 3. Go to Settings --> General --> Use as System Photo Library --> Okay 4. Wait..... until the spinning Beachball stops spinning 5. Settings --> iCloud --> iCloud Photos --> Download Originals to this Mac 6. Wait.... until it says "Synced with iCloud." Switch back to Photo Library on Local Hard Drive 1. Go to Finder Window by clicking on the Happy Face on the far left of the Dock 2. Click on Pictures, then "Photos Library" 3. Go to Settings --> General --> Use as System Photo Library --> Okay 4. Wait..... until the spinning Beachball stops spinning 5. Settings --> iCloud --> iCloud Photos --> Download Originals to this Mac 6. Wait.... until it says "Synced with iCloud."
Always great help David, Thank you.....I'm Still on Monterey, Photo back up does not show Synced with iCloud on my Mac (BU to Ext drive complete), but Does Show on my iPhone. Have I missed something?
I’m at my wits end I have formatted my WD external drive to use to back up Time Machine but keep getting can’t back up,firewall is encrypting decrypting ten hours remaining Please someone help before my IMac and external drive go through the window Harry
@TechTalkAmerica Can't clone Mac HD, if optimised storage is on... for now, I'll contest that fact in the future and get back to you, bcos in my opinion -I really don't know how that can be true... when the said cloning is done in Recovery mode, "which makes use of the base system partition or Apple server," to restore "from and to" selected disk.
Thank you. The is helpful and timely. BTW BlackMagic can't access either of my current backup drives, Data and Time Machine. They are both formatted APFS and function normally, but it cannot run due to being Read Only. This designation doesn't appear in Disk Utility. Am I missing something?
@@TechTalkAmerica Thank you! I didn't think to check Permissions. (My bad.) I changed my data back up drive to Read/Write, but I couldn't change my current Time Machine drive. However, both drives are identical, older 4TB spinning disks. The one I could test fell well below the benchmark you suggested, so I will now upgrade both. Thank you, again. I've been following you for a few years, and your tutorials have always been instructive and helpful.
When I switched back to my original Photo file the pictures reappeared, good news, but all the smart albums etc that I had created (from another of your videos) were gone. Any suggestions?
I find it funny that computers are supposed to make your life easier, but in reality it makes it more confusing…… i think we are headed in the wrong direction.
time machine for backups is like using a blind person using a blind Guide dog , only an idiot uses TM. 1. TM can fail randomly and you WILL loose all your data, it can self corrupt the indexes for your backups and make it impossible to recover the data. ever seen that message, where apple tells you it has to take another backup, becasue there is an issue with the index?.. and you thought it was being helpful..... nar, it just blew your data away.. and is now covering up..) 2. TM DOES NOT backup you drives like a normal backup program, it is possible for you to loose whole drives of info, becasue TM DOES NOT include them in the backup. 3. DO NOT EVER use apples icloud for data storage, your data is NOT private, don't care what Apple might tell you. it is NOT private. 4. Apple uses "finger printing code", they scan your data files for content that they deem unacceptable... so the question is.... if your data is "encrypted & privater" how do they scan the data. simple... they have a "master key", your key is actually a "child key" based off the master keys
Thanks!
Thank you so much for the Super Thanks 🙏
thx for all you do to help ppl that just would not no what to do God bless you
Partition or Volume for TimeMachine? Which one should be used?
Thank you for this video. As usual, you’ve explained things so they’re easy to grasp. 😊
Love this video David. So very helpful. Thank you!
Excellent presentation! 5 thumbs up to you David Wavid! 😀
Thanks, it is always confusing the right way to do things and keep sane! Time to backup!
He lost me at the necklace made to copy his own iris 😂
I like easy to follow but a bit fast. Stoping and starting I was successful. Thank you
common' man, i'm not going to do all that stuff...just back up to a hard drive on a regular schedule...way too complicated dave...thumbs up for the advice...
Yo are you sure it backs up everything every single thing I put in the laptop ?
Great video, as always! David, have you ever thought about writing a how to book? Just a suggestion.
Great Video. I need to organize my back up for both (old) my imac and my powerbook pro. Would I need need four partitions on the external hard drive?
OMG so helpful, wish I found you a gazillion years ago 🙏
Awesome instructions
Really cool 👌
I have a new 8tb drive coming today. As it is not SSD what do you choose as the format please? Mac OS Extended? Sorry, not a systems girl 😞 I like the idea of it being split for Time Machine and normal backup. I will carefully follow your instructions if I can see what format I need! It is to backup new MacBook Pro after my old lady 12 year old iMac became unstable. My files are on iCloud at the moment. Thank you.
Dang!! That is a good point, I asked my wife if we had something like that in our will. I do have my daughter setup as my legacy should, heaven forbid, something happen. But it is not in our will. My time machine is backed up to my NAS - it is encrypted. I do have iCloud on the family plan. But what about immutable backups, how would I deal with that. Of course, the recovery is only good if you back up frequently. There is always data "in-flight".
awesome info as usual
great! thanks so much for this
You're very welcome!
Which online service would you recommend to do a full backup of my Mac? In addition to TM, I subscribe to Backblaze
Excellent 🎉
This is great stuff, very informative. Thank you!
I did the Blackmagic disk speed test on the various external hard drives I have.
Interestingly, my oldest hard drive gets the best read & write speeds of about 98 MB/s. Its format is MacOS Extended (Journaled).
A pretty new hard drive I have only gets about 60 MB/s. I have it formatted as ExFAT.
I couldn't even do the speed test on my last hard drive. This is the one I use together with time machine and its format is APFS (case sensitive).
Any thoughts on why my speeds vary so much/why they aren't very impressive? Maybe the format type also plays a role?
Thanks. :)
I watched a video somewhere, and it said to NOT mess with the part that says "internal." Well... I accidentally added and renamed something in Internal. I don't know what I did... and I don't know how to undo it ... and I don't know how serious this is. Can anyone help?
Meant constructively, and I'm sure you're correct me if I'm wrong, iCloud insist that it stores the data locally as well as online. It's why I stopped using iCloud. It does not save space locally, only Apple photos does that.
You're the "GREATEST"
Can you sync new photos to your back up drive with out using icloud?
If its not encrypted and someone gets a hold of your hard drive can't they access everything on the hard drive?
Just a note: SSD's are not good for longtime storage. Data retention is only gaurenteed for one year without power.
What if I have two separate laptops I want to back up? Everything on iCloud syncs between the two, but my music does not. Should I do a single time-machine for the laptop with more data on it, or should they have two separate backups, and if so should it be on two separate drives? Thanks!
Great video David. How do you reverse the process if I no longer want to use my external drive?
Will backing up the music library by a manual backup preserve my playlists?
Great video as usual! I've purchased a new Mac mini system and converting an old iMac to it-I'd like to book a 2 hour continieous session with you but before hand what do you recommend for a back up system? I'm looking at OWC 16TB ThunderBay 4 mini 4-Drive SSD Thunderbolt 3 RAID 5 Array or PROMISE Pegasus32 R4 16TB RAID System?
I am completely confused! Come to the UK David :D
CLOUD - YIKES ( HOW ABOUT CRUCIAL {Brand }. 2Tb -4Tb SSD ).
NOTE: I do watch many of your videos .
I LEARNED HOW TO USE A MAC FROM YOUR VIDEOS AND STILL LEARNING. THANK YOU 👍
David, help! I’ve been in the industry for decades and have had a complete, redundant backup strategy that’s been great. I want to upgrade my macOS to Sequoia next year but found out my prime, daily backup software is no longer supported by its developer. PLEASE tell me what software I can use now that has the functionality of my old Tri-Edre BACKUP? All my data is kept on external drives and in the cloud in iDrive. CCC backs up my MacHD to a dedicated drive, with Tri-Edre BACKUP, I can back up an entire drive, partitions, or individual folders as needed to my other external drives. Thank you!!!
Pretty complex. wouldn’t it be great if Apple made this a lot simpler by perfecting the time machine backup system?
Thank you David this is all very useful. Noob here. I managed to do a backup of all my iCloud Photos folder to my external SSD. HOWEVER: when I went back to my local Photos drive, there were only a few hundred photos, compared to the thousands on my iCloud Drive. I am hesitant to go back to the next step to make the Mac Photo drive as the new System Photo Library, fearful that the new drive with limited photos will override the complete one. Will the iCloud Photos on my SSD be added back to the library on my Mac? (Pardon my ignorance here.)
Why in APFS? Why not encrypting it?
dear david, to encrypt an ssd partition is probably not so good for the ssd lifetime. bzt why dont you encrypt a timemachine backUp ? thx in advance
With Mac OS X 14 I found it roughly only uses the same amount of storage on the external drive as on the internal - which is really annoying as I need at least 12-24 month of backups but ends up with it only using 2.5TB out of 4TB - This is down to APFS handling of snapshots but a catch out if you need to keep a certain minimum of month back
Hi David, Thank for for all of your informative videos. I really appreciate them. When testing HD speed using the Black Magic Speed Test app, how can I tell if it is testing my external HD and not my internal drive? I'm using an M1 Mac Mini.
Perfect timing. My Time Machine drive just failed!! Purchased a Crucial X9 Pro 4TB SSD (amazingly quick and very small). I followed your instructions, and my mac says it saves an encrypted 1st copy onto an unencrypted disk. Any reason why you suggested an unencrypted disk?
To switch back to Photo Library on Local Hard Drive, do I need to "Download Originals to this Mac" again? If so, these would be the steps from the start: Downloading photos to Manual Backup
1. Double Click "Manual Backup"
2. Double Click "Photos Library"
3. Go to Settings --> General --> Use as System Photo Library --> Okay
4. Wait..... until the spinning Beachball stops spinning
5. Settings --> iCloud --> iCloud Photos --> Download Originals to this Mac
6. Wait.... until it says "Synced with iCloud."
Switch back to Photo Library on Local Hard Drive
1. Go to Finder Window by clicking on the Happy Face on the far left of the Dock
2. Click on Pictures, then "Photos Library"
3. Go to Settings --> General --> Use as System Photo Library --> Okay
4. Wait..... until the spinning Beachball stops spinning
5. Settings --> iCloud --> iCloud Photos --> Download Originals to this Mac
6. Wait.... until it says "Synced with iCloud."
Always great help David, Thank you.....I'm Still on Monterey, Photo back up does not show Synced with iCloud on my Mac (BU to Ext drive complete), but Does Show on my iPhone. Have I missed something?
I don’t know I got lost so fast and I don’t have a physical backup drive
You lost me at climate change. Honestly, you need to back up your Mac because "climate change"?
That was weird. Maybe a joke?
It was sarcasm obviously
English must not be your first language 🫠
a joke
Climate scam
I’m at my wits end I have formatted my WD external drive to use to back up Time Machine but keep getting can’t back up,firewall is encrypting decrypting ten hours remaining
Please someone help before my IMac and external drive go through the window
Harry
Http://techtalkamerica.com/techtherapy
Does it have to be a SSD? The old spinning disk is less expensive and I think I can get more space?
NO... HDD Works just fine if you're not bothered about speed.
Cloning the entire Macintosh HD image is also a good fail-save add-on...
Yes, but you can’t clone an entire drive if that drive has optimized data on it. So that would only be for someone not using iCloud
@TechTalkAmerica Can't clone Mac HD, if optimised storage is on... for now, I'll contest that fact in the future and get back to you, bcos in my opinion -I really don't know how that can be true... when the said cloning is done in Recovery mode, "which makes use of the base system partition or Apple server," to restore "from and to" selected disk.
Thank you. The is helpful and timely. BTW BlackMagic can't access either of my current backup drives, Data and Time Machine. They are both formatted APFS and function normally, but it cannot run due to being Read Only. This designation doesn't appear in Disk Utility. Am I missing something?
You can create a separate folder and give it special read/write permissions
@@TechTalkAmerica Thank you! I didn't think to check Permissions. (My bad.) I changed my data back up drive to Read/Write, but I couldn't change my current Time Machine drive. However, both drives are identical, older 4TB spinning disks. The one I could test fell well below the benchmark you suggested, so I will now upgrade both. Thank you, again. I've been following you for a few years, and your tutorials have always been instructive and helpful.
When I switched back to my original Photo file the pictures reappeared, good news, but all the smart albums etc that I had created (from another of your videos) were gone. Any suggestions?
I suspect that you will need to create the smart albums first, before cloning the folder to your ext HDD.
So ridiculous that doing a comprehensive backup on Mac requires one to jump thru SO MANY TEDIOUS different oops! TRULY RIDICULOUS in my opinion!!!!😡😡😡
I’m glad to see that you’re wearing a branded shirt. 😊
Is there a easier way? This is confusing windows is so much easier to do this then mac
No advice on how to back up your emails? Apple really screwed that up, not surprising.
I find it funny that computers are supposed to make your life easier, but in reality it makes it more confusing…… i think we are headed in the wrong direction.
External hard drive? You mean an external storage device. A solid state drive (SSD) is better.
time machine for backups is like using a blind person using a blind Guide dog , only an idiot uses TM.
1. TM can fail randomly and you WILL loose all your data, it can self corrupt the indexes for your backups and make it impossible to recover the data.
ever seen that message, where apple tells you it has to take another backup, becasue there is an issue with the index?.. and you thought it was being helpful..... nar, it just blew your data away.. and is now covering up..)
2. TM DOES NOT backup you drives like a normal backup program, it is possible for you to loose whole drives of info, becasue TM DOES NOT include them in the backup.
3. DO NOT EVER use apples icloud for data storage, your data is NOT private, don't care what Apple might tell you. it is NOT private.
4. Apple uses "finger printing code", they scan your data files for content that they deem unacceptable... so the question is.... if your data is "encrypted & privater" how do they scan the data.
simple... they have a "master key", your key is actually a "child key" based off the master keys
bro really wanted to hit 10 minutes. at least be good at explaining if you're gonna take up 12 minutes to explain how to do a backup.
Climate change?
Climate change?? You lost me on that one.
You talk tooooo FAST. Not helpful to the beginner
You know you can pause/rewind youtube vids.. also you can change the playback speed too.
Climate change dude? really?
Thanks!