Help! How do Iback up my Mac?
It’s always wise to back up regularly, but what if you have problems?
Dbackups, or not enough? Can you easily recover from the backups you do have? Here we talk you through how you can create and restore from Time Machine backups, and also how to clone your internal and external drives using third–party apps. We strongly recommend you use both Time Machine and disk cloners. Time Machine is great for delving into if you need to retrieve a file deleted in error, or to restore your hard drive from a previous backup. Cloned backups, on the other hand, are kept in exactly the same state as the drive you’re cloning. Therefore, if the original drive fails, it means you have an exact copy of it.
Here’s a quick tip about Time Machine. If you need to recover an accidentally deleted file, or one that’s been edited and you need an older version, open the Finder window where it is — or was — stored. Open the Time Machine app and navigate to the time and date when the file you want was present, or before the edit. Click on it, and then click the Restore button to recover the file, or earlier version of the file.