How to Backup Mac Data with Time Machine and Clone Software?

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How to back up Mac data? Actually, there are many methods to back up your data on Mac. The reliable and simple way is to back up your data with software. It can help you back up data without too much manual works and it can do the job easily. One of the best backup applications used is the system built-in backup feature - Time Machine. Also, we will suggest another third-party tool - Donemax Disk Clone for Mac - to help you clone and image drive data as backup.

How to Create Backup with Time Machine?

Time Machine is one of the most popular Mac applications that widely used by users. It's very reliable and flexible to back up your Mac data. Also, it's able to restore your files with Time Machine in an easy way. However, if you want to back up your Mac data with Time Machine, please prepare an specified drive for it.

To back up your data with Time Machine, please just follow the guide below step by step.

Step 1. Choose Apple menu > System Settings > General, then click Time Machine.

Step 2. Click Select Backup Disk. Click the button "Add Backup Disk..." and it will show you all the disks on Mac. Note:

Step 3. Please choose one for the backup. Click "Set Up Disk..." button to continue. Please don't use a disk that has existing import data for Time Machine. When you choose a drive for Time Machine, it will erase it first if the format is not required for Mac.

Step 4. If you don't want others access your backup, you can enable the option "Encrypt backups". Otherwise, you can switch off the option. Click Done button to finish the backup setup.

Step 5. After closing it, Time Machine will start to back up automatically. If you enable the automatic backup, you can also click 'Back Up to "xxx" Now' to start the backup manually.

What's more, you can also change the backup frequency and exclude some files from the backups. If you want to change these settings for Time Machine backup, you can click "Options..." button to change the backup schedule or add the files/folders you want to exclude.

Back Up Mac Data with Mac Cloning Software

Besides Time Machine, you can also back up your data on Mac with another way. Here we will show you the method to back up your Mac data by using Donemax Disk Clone for Mac. With this simple and reliable Mac cloning software, you can clone your Mac data to another drive directly. Also, you can create an image of your drive to back up your data on another drive for data security.

Donemax Disk Clone for Mac provides multiple solutions to back up Mac data. You can not only copy and back data on Mac, but also make bootable copy of macOS. You can check the guide and choose a proper method to back up your Mac data.

Solution 1: Create bootable clone backup for Mac

Make a bootable clone backup for Mac is useful to protect your Mac system and user data. The method will clone everything including system data, apps and user files to the destination. It can guarantee the cloned drive is also bootable.

You can use the bootable clone backup in the following cases:

• Boot Mac from cloned drive to fix startup disk issues if the Mac failed to boot.
• Migrate the macOS to another new Mac without reinstalling macOS and programs.
• Keep a full backup of macOS before upgrading to new version.
• Test some programs on cloned drive without affecting the original Mac drive.

Here are the steps to make a full and bootable clone backup for Mac using Donemax Disk Clone for Mac:

Step 1. Download and install the software on Mac. Connect an external hard drive to the Mac and run Donemax Disk Clone for Mac. Choose OS Clone mode and choose the external hard drive as destination. You don't need to choose the source drive as the startup disk will be selected automatically.

Step 2. Start the disk cloning process by clicking on the Clone Now button. Leave the software running until the process is complete. If the startup disk is big and too much data on the drive, it will take some time. Just wait patiently.

Step 3. Click Done button after the cloning process is finished. Go to the destination disk to check the data first. Then change the cloned drive as startup disk and check if the cloned drive it bootable.

Solution 2: Clone your Mac data to another disk directly.

To clone the data directly from the Mac drive to another drive, please use the option "Disk Copy". This option can copy data from Mac internal drive, external drives, USB drives, SD card, etc. Here is the simple and short tutorial for you to clone the data on Mac.

1. Open Donemax Disk Clone for Mac and then choose disk cloning mode - Disk Copy.
   
2. Choose the source and destination drive. It will clone the source drive to destination drive.
   
3. Click on Copy Now button to quickly copy the data from the source drive to the destination drive.

Solution 3: Create disk image for your data on Mac.

As mentioned, the software provide another way to back up your Mac data. You can create an disk image for your drive directly. Then you can access your disk image to your data directly.

1. To create an image for a disk, choose it as source and select another disk as destination.
   
2. Choose some or all files on the disk to create disk image. Also, choose DMG or ZIP format.
   
3. Once the disk image is created, you can then check the disk image and see if the data was successfully included in the disk image.

As a simple way to back up your data on Mac, Donemax Disk Clone for Mac is very simple to use and you can access the cloned data without another operations. Doesn't like Time Machine, you don't need to restore the data first in order to access and use the data again. If you want to back up your data on Mac, you can try the mac clone software to do the job easily.

Conclusion:

Back up data is necessary for users to protect important data. For Mac users, there are several methods to back up Mac data. Before starting backup process, it's important to choose the proper backup solutions and tools. Also, it's essential to get a storage device with enough space to hold the backup data.

Time Machine is a popular solution to back up data. It can automatically back up data and create incremental backups. It means it can keep multiple versions for your Mac data. It's flexible to recover individual files/folders or restore macOS with Time Machine backup.

In the other hand, the disk cloning software like Donemax Disk Clone for Mac offers another backup solution for Mac data. With a bootable clone backup for Mac, it's easy to boot Mac from the cloned drive directly without restoring process.

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