What I am writing here are not official recommendations from Apple or rules that someone has set, but are merely tips for you that I have gathered from my years of experience with Macs and with Time Machine. This includes, above all, the selection of the appropriate storage medium. The backups are created in the background - usually when the Mac is idle anyway - and you usually don't have to worry about anything if you have everything set up correctly in advance.
9 Bottom line: my hard drive recommendationĪpple's in-house backup solution called "Time Machine" is a recommended feature of macOS that you should definitely use.7 SSD or HDD as a storage medium for Time Machine?.6 What is the capacity of the Time Machine Volume?.5 My tip: never trust Time Machine alone.2 First of all, my hard drive recommendations for anyone who does not want to read a lot.Address any prompts that appear on the screen (grant Administrative access, etc.) The Graphical Timeline to the right of the Time Machine windowīrowse to, and select files/folders you wish to restore.You can navigate Time Machine through the following: Open Finder - Applications - Time Machine.At this point Time Machine prepares the drive and backs up selected data. At this point the folder size Calculations and Adjustments are made. Select files/folders and click on the Exclude button.Click on the + button to change what is excluded by Time machine.At this point the Backup Disk is selected and the next Time Machine Backup will start in 120 Seconds (2 Minutes).Įxcluding items from Time Machine backup plan ( Options): Select a drive and click on the Use Disk button.A window opens showing External Storage Drives connected to your Mac. Setting up the external drive to be used with Time Machine: Use this link for instructions on formatting your drive For macOS versions for 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to 10.15 (Catalina) use Mac OS Extended (Journaled) also referred to as HFS+ when setting up a new backup.For Big Sur use Apple File System (APFS) when setting up a new backup.MacOS requires that a drive be formatted with a specific file system to be used with Time Machine Setting up the external drive to be used with Time MachineĮxcluding items from Time Machine backup planįormatting a drive to be used with Time Machine:
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