![]() ![]() To submit a tech question, e-mail Rob at Follow him on Twitter at /robpegoraro. ![]() I have in the past connected an old Time Machine backup to my mac and the Mac did not recognize it as a backup. I have not tested the restore process and not sure if this is a viable solution. Rob Pegoraro is a tech writer based out of Washington, D.C. Once the Time Machine backup backs up to the TrueNas, The TrueNas syncs the backup to Wasabi. ![]() Or you can park important files online using Apple's iCloud, Microsoft's OneDrive or Dropbox each includes sync software that presents them as if they occupied yet another folder on your hard drive.Īnd if you've got a spare external drive, use that to store a separate copy of your most important files and then stash it in a separate room in your house - or in a trusted friend's house. Online backup systems such as Mozy, Backblaze, Carbonite and CrashPlan ( compared here two Decembers ago) allow cheap or free automatic backups as long as you have an Internet connection. To avoid that, keep at least your most important data somewhere else. In a worst-case Time Machine scenario, when the software somehow fails to delete old copies of your files to make room for new ones, you may find you have to erase the entire backup volume and redo your Time Machine settings - while you pray that a hard-drive crash doesn't destroy your computer before your data is once again safely duplicated. Tip: Don't rely on a single backup system But in my experience, people deal with Time Machine out-of-space warnings not by buying a bigger external drive, but by ignoring those alerts and letting backups get out of date. This does mean you will have to spend time reinstalling apps after restoring a backup. Those two steps alone can easily chisel down a backup size by 25 gigabytes. You might as well tell Time Machine to ignore the entire Applications folder next. Then Time Machine will ask if you want to "Exclude All System Files"-meaning it will also ignore program files installed alongside OS X, such as Safari and Mail, while still backing up those applications' data. Use the menu atop this dialog box to navigate back up to your hard drive (most often named "Macintosh HD") and select the System folder. Open the System Preferences app, select Time Machine, click its Options button and then click the plus-sign button. But if that doesn't work, it's time to start excluding items from backup that you can recreate somewhat easily later on. ![]()
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