Why you Should Back up your Mac
You might probably know a few things about why you should back up your data and your system. However, I’m going to outline a few reasons why you need to back up your files.
Time Machine: What Items it Backup?
You can use Time Machine, the built-in backup feature of your Mac, to automatically back up all of your files, including apps, music, photos, email, documents, and system files. Also, you can exclude any specific folder that you don’t want to backup. Time Machine has the feature to exclude a specific folder in order to not back it up. Time machine keeps; In addition, the oldest backups are deleted when your backup disk becomes full.
Backup your macOS Data to an External Drive (Time Machine)
Without any further details let’s get started on how to backup your macOS Data to an External Drive using Apple default backup solution software “Time Machine”. It’s highly recommended to backup your data to an external hard drive. You can also visit our related guides about backing your data;
How to Backup iOS Devices Wirelessly How to Backup iPhone Photos to Google Photos? How to Backup and Restore Samsung Phone Data? What’s the Difference between iCloud Backup and iTunes Backup?
Summary
In this post, I’ve covered how to backup your macOS Data to an external drive using Time Machine. This software is a free tool to backup your data and restore it later on. If you use the Time Machine backup tool, you can restore it whenever you buy a new Mac device. In addition, I’ve mentioned the reasons to back up your data and what items the Time machine backs up. What backup solution you guys use? Let us know in the comment section below.
