How to Backup Mac Data with Time Machine and Mac Disk Software

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 - DMclone 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 Preferences, then click Time Machine.

Step 2. Click Select Backup Disk. Click the button “Select Backup Disk...” and it will show you all the disks on Mac. Please choose one for the backup.

Step 3. If you want to exclude some files in the Time Machine backup, you can click “Options...” to add the files/folders you want to exclude.

Step 4. After closing it, Time Machine will start to back up automatically. If you enable the automatic backup, you can also click “Back up now” to start the backup.

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 DMclone 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.

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”. Here is the simple and short tutorial for you to clone the data on Mac.

Step 1. Open DMclone for Mac and then choose disk cloning mode - “Disk Copy”.

Step 2. Choose the source drive and destination drive. This mode will clone the source drive to the destination drive.

Step 3. Click on Copy Now button to quickly copy the data from the source drive to the destination drive.

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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.

Step 1. To create an image for a disk, please ensure to choose the disk as source. Also select another disk as destination.

Step 2.Choose the specified files or all the files on the disk to create the disk image. Also, choose DMG or ZIP as the format of the disk image.

Step 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, DMclone 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.

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