![]() You will need to pay Apple a monthly subscription for iCloud storage. If you use apps like Pages and Numbers the documents you create will also be saved to the cloud, and your Mail and Messages can also be stored in the cloud. The files you can sync this way include everything on your Desktop and everything in your Documents folder. ![]() How to backup my mac to a flash drive Pc#Having your files synced to iCloud is great though because you can access them on any of your Apple devices (and even from a PC if you go via ). You can automatically sync certain files from your Mac to iCloud, you shouldn’t see this as a back up though, because if you delete the file, or amend the file, there won’t be an old version you can go back to. That doesn’t mean that iCloud can’t be used to back up some of what’s on your Mac though. If you were hoping that you could back up your Mac to Apple’s iCloud instead of a external hard drive prepare to be disappointed though: you can’t back up your whole Mac to iCloud and iCloud doesn’t work with Time Machine. ![]() We’d recommend using a drive with at least four times as much space as you have on your Mac. You’ll also need a lot of storage available because Time Machine backups take up more space than all the data on you Mac, because of those incremental backups. The only real disadvantages of Time Machine are that you need to remember to plug in your hard drive otherwise nothing will be backed up, although you could set up Time Machine on a NAS drive for a wireless backup, but that might be a bit slower. A Time Machine backup makes it especially easy to transfer all your data, settings, and apps from one Mac to another. Other benefits of Time Machine include its tight integration with macOS. Having a versioned backup is a benefit because not only does it protect you if something goes wrong with your Mac, it also protects you from user error (saving over a document for example).ĬhronoSync ($49.99/£36.00 at Econ Technologies) can also make versioned backups too.
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