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Backup Up Method ?
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I use a local Time Machine backup on an external drive and also Backblaze for online.
SuperDuper or CarbonCopyCloner.
The SD interface is a little easier to use, but CCC offers the user more options.
You didn't tell us WHICH Mac you have, but if it's Apple Silicon, SD can create a bootable backup, pretty much like it used to. Although the overall "usefulness" of having a cloned backup isn't what it used to be.
CCC can do this as well, but again, SD makes the process easier.
The SD interface is a little easier to use, but CCC offers the user more options.
You didn't tell us WHICH Mac you have, but if it's Apple Silicon, SD can create a bootable backup, pretty much like it used to. Although the overall "usefulness" of having a cloned backup isn't what it used to be.
CCC can do this as well, but again, SD makes the process easier.
Even if it's an m-series Mac, I still recommend SD or CCC.
Time Machine is solid and hasn’t let me down
I use CCC for data recovery/back ups and (with updates) its filter system lets me select specific things to preserve separately (ex. Users, photos, docs). And it’s task management lets me keep track of what back ups I’ve done and where they are, so I don’t have to check each drive.
I use CCC for data recovery/back ups and (with updates) its filter system lets me select specific things to preserve separately (ex. Users, photos, docs). And it’s task management lets me keep track of what back ups I’ve done and where they are, so I don’t have to check each drive.
When I moved from a 2015 iMac to a M2 Mini I stopped making clones of the OS. They seemed less useful or relevant as you mentioned. Going with the M2 base Mini Pro I switched to how I utilize the internal SD. It now only holds the OS and applications. Everything else is on 3 separate NVME drives: one for my photo and video archive, one for FCP projects and a third to act as my "home" directory and a general storage drive. Those three drives are backed up with CCC.
I have an old 80GB Intel SSD I'm using CCC to make a backup of my home directory mainly to capture anything in the Library folder if I needed to reload the OS. That pretty small most everything in my documents folder points to the external. I still have just under 400GB of free space on my internal SSD.