OMGGG Joel, of all the hundreds of YT hours I have and educational vlogs I WISH I found your channel sooner. Best teacher of the Mac tech know how that I need, just enough detail, clear, concise, visuals. "Hidden" features, EZ pro tips. No channel is better at this guys. Joel pls keep forging ahead.
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Joel I am a 76 year old retired businessman who has been using Macs for home and personal use for 25+ years. I agree whole heartedly with Ronny. I wish I had found you sooner.You are the absolute best Mac resource. I have just become one of your newest subscribers and one of your oldest by age. Thank you. I wish you continued success. Ed
Hi Joel, what fantastic content thank you (now subscribed) My 2TB Time Capsule (7years old) is now full & deleting the oldest back ups. I have just purchased a 6TB WD ‘My Book’. When that’s connected do I just disconnect the old Time Capsule, can I transfer the oldest back ups to the new hard drive? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I cannot find an answer to my specific query. Thank you. 👍
Joel. It is late September 2022. I am 71½ years of age. I have never had a computer lesson in my life. I use Macs because I like them. I have learnt more about Time Machine and Pages in 24 minutes 33 seconds than I have ever known in my entire life. I am now a happy old man. Thank you, sir.
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Joel, I am a what could be called a computer illiterate person, and I just have one thing to say: Thank You! It was a very informative video, even I could understand it. So, thank you one more time.
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I was looking for a comprehensive video on Time Machine and NO ONE spoke of backing it up to another device or network. This has been immensely helpful. Thank you so much. Can’t imagine lol the notes you would have to had to make to collate all the information in a systematic and cohesive manner. Thank you 🙏🏼
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@@Learnwithjoel Clicking on the format the drive within Time Machine was super helpful (and the performance is much better than using it with EXFAT). Thanks again!
I learned a lot and your video is appreciated. Thanks to you I have my computer backed up and I will be backing up my wife’s. You’ve earned a thumbs up and a subscriber.
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Excellent video Joel, I tried to install MacOs beta yesterday and machine prompted me to do the time machine backup. Until then I had not even thought about it. Glad I found your video. It has everything I wanted. Great work.
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This was a very thorough, in-depth, and easy to understand along the way of what Time Machine is and the various options and possibilities associated with it... Great stuff...!!!
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Excellent video, with a clear and easily understandable explanation. I’m familiar with the basic operation of time machine, but this gave some very useful extra information. Really helpful, thanks!
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This is by far the best and most thorough video I have seen on backups for the Mac...it answered so many questions. I have saved this link because I want to see what else you have done, Joel.
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I just recently discovered your channel and your videos are excellent! Your style is easy to follow and I will be viewing much more of your great stuff. You are truly a superb teacher and I hope your RUclips channel continues to grow. Be well.
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Very Intensive, informative and helpful. I am a advocate of Time Machine having used it for all my Mac Years and have flawlessly transferred all data from Time Machine (Disk)(LaCie) to my New Mac. It's an amazing utility and everyone that has a Mac should be using this. Great job on the tutorial/video!!
Hi Bill I hope you don't mind me asking, when the disk is full will Time Machine warn you to allow you not to lose any files that are old that it would otherwise basically start to disgard to make space? Not one video on RUclips it seems to cover this very important point. Last year I lost a file as it was the oldest folder on my back up, seems Time Machine didn't take into account it was the only version as in the oldest and the newest of that project. I keep an eye out manually to see how kuch space is left on the back up disc to avoid it happening again. Thanks.
@@JB12132 A legit concern and one that comes up with my clients a lot. You’re right, Time Machine will not give you a warning before it deletes older versions of backups to make space for new backups. It only stores as many backups as it can fit on that hard-drive. My rule of thumb? Use a Time Machine (TM for short) hard drive that is twice the size of your Mac’s internal hard-drive capacity. And depending on if you’re adding GBs to your Mac regularly, you may even want to triple or quadruple the size of your Time Machine hard-drive to allow for more backups. You can kind of calculate how much data you’re using each week or month to figure out how big of a TM hard drive you need. Look at your Mac’s available storage capacity. You can find this by clicking the Apple 🍏 in the upper left corner of the screen then About This Mac > Storage. If you’re running Ventura or later, select System Settings > search storage. Note how much storage max capacity you have and how much is AVAILABLE. Check again in a week or two. That’ll give you an idea of your data “burn rate” and how much extra space you need on Time Machine to cover backups. 🎉 For example, if you noted you are currently using 250GB out of 500GB, then you check again in a week and it’s 260GB out of 500GB. That’s a 10GB increase in 1 week. Say your TM is 1TB or 1000GB - you’d have 740GB of space available for backups. At a burn rate of 10GB per week that’s 74 weeks of backups, give or take depending if you add more, less or delete stuff. You can also use 2 hard-drives in Time Machine that will alternate backups by adding another backup disk. All possible options so you don’t have to keep checking manually 😊 I hope that answered your question! 🧡
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Great video. Very thorough. Please also mention that TimeMachine backups are sometimes prone to corrupting, especially if you need to restore a whole computer from backup, so use a good drive, and if able multiple backup locations.
Thanks for the feedback @Eric Chang! I agree that you should always have more than one backup and try and follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Carbon Copy or ChronoSync are great alternatives to Time Machine! I think the software experience of Time Machine can be pretty clunky, but if you know where your files are at, you can always drill down to the file location via the Finder. Thanks so much for watching! If this video was helpful and you learned something new, please SUBSCRIBE to my channel if you haven’t already! If you want to support my content click THANKS below or better yet, SHARE it with a friend on social media and say how it helped you! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated!
I am an 80-year-old retired ost-production manager/localization producer who has used Macs since TV productions changed from analog to digital workflows (1922). I took training in Avid and Protools but never in OS operation. I just learned by doing so, but I have been frustrated with Time Machine, especially with moving backups to new Macs. In 24:19, I've learned more about Time Machine operation/ Foile Sharing/ Restoration than in 32 years of fumbling around with OS from 9 through 12. That is why I've subscribed to you on RUclips. My only complaint is that I have to view your tutorials on one machine and stop often to recreate your instructions on another machine on another Mac. I guess I am a slow learner these days. Reply
Great video with lots of detail on time machine. You did this one very important point that is a game changer for me. How to make sure Time Machine backs up external drives. Many people don’t think you can use time machine to back up an external drive but it is indeed possible. Thanks again
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Nice Clear instructions, lots of things I didn't know - thanks :). However, I don't trust wireless backups. Back when Time Capsules were new I had my time machine go corrupt after about 3 months, I gave up after this happened 3 times. Not long after I got myself a Synology NAS I set this up for Time Machine and this also corrupted after about 3 months. So I now plug a USB 2TB hard drive into my MacBook Pro and use that so far no problems after over many years.
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Great video. Another approach that expands on the "back up to a remote, shared folder, blessed for Time Machine, that resides on a networked Mac " is to share a externally connected Time Machine drive and share and bless it for TM. As long as you don't have your Time Machine backups encrypted (argh-few hours of head-scratching on that one), the remote Mac-connected Time Machine drive will be available anywhere on your network. Brilliant!
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Thanks for your video, Joel, very helpful and informative, really appreciate the awesome effort you put into this one. Your channel among a handful is the reason why RUclips is a gift. More power to you.
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It’s actually *very* good that the Time Capsule is still supported. I have 2 and will be using them until the end of time. They give me backup WiFi’s (beside my high speed router), and backups via Time Machine without having to plug in an external drive!
Excellent content! Demystified something that wasn't actually all that mysterious once I watch your tutorial. Backing up brand new Time Machine as I type this.
Thanks so much @F Greenfield! Time Machine is a good start to backing up files on your Mac if you don't currently have any backup! Thanks so much for watching! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
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Awesome....a lot of information. I plan to watch again tomorrow. I did start my Time Machine back up...thank you. It reads 5 hours but this is an almost full 500gb SSD MacBook Pro from 2016 and I have never backed it up. I will back it up to the 1Tb SSD I bought today then go from there....thank you.
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Excellent video. So thorough and organized. I will actually keep this aside as a reference video because I know with everything thats packed in here I will use it again. New Sub here. Thank you Joel!
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If you buy a hard drive with more space then you need for a backup you can partition the hard drive and format that partition to a Mac and the other partition to ms-dos or xfat to be used on windows. Im sure you know this but not sure if you have a video on that for others to know. Thank you your videos are verry helpful.
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Thanks for a fantastically clear discussion of Time Machine, which I’d never really understood before. I’m going to set it up tomorrow. And I’ve subscribed to your channel. I hope to learn a lot from you. Thanks again!
Thanks for a helpful and detailed explanation. I've been backing up my macbook with time machine for nearly 10 years and have never yet had to restore anything but it's nice to know how to do it if I need to.
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Brilliant video, thank you for the priceless info! I have been having some trouble downloading my TimeMachine backups to my new SSD. The message I received on my last attempt was "The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “Photo Library Migration Utility” can’t be read or written. (Error code -36)". It would be awesome if you could advise me how I get passed this. I've also tried to simply restore from the old drive via Disk Utility but also ran into problems, apparently the new drive isn't in the right format, even though they are exactly the same (both Mac journaled and GUID partition). Also my new SSD is 1TB where as my old HDD is 2TB. I'm only using around 800GB but am unsure if the new drive needs to not only have enough space, but at least match the storage size of the drive being restored from? I hope this all made sense and eagerly await a reply from anyone who can help.
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Awsome video, I just got my first macbook pro and it has the M1 chip but going from pc to Mac has been a learning curve and I already had to revert back and downgrade to Monterey because I do music production as a hobby and almost nothing is ready for ventura yet but your video has now given me clear understanding of the time machine and how it all works and how to even set it up.. thanks for the video!
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I just gave up my 2017 MBA for a new M2 MBA. I set up the new one from the old one direct. When I plugged the original Time Machine in it was clearly not performing right. As I really didn’t have anything important from way back I decided to fully reformat in APFS and then started Time Machine from scratch. Much happier. I don’t know what format system I had on the old Time Machine but it really did not like the new machine. Your info here suggests it might have tried to start as a second computer. Anyhow, it’s all great again.
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i have had a mac for years and not used this, amazing. i am creating a workbook for my IT students and thought this time machine is great for my dad because he has had issues with his iMac 2009 so a back up now is imperative. i got him an external hard drive i- thank you
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This video was a breath of fresh air (it was so clear!) New Subbie! Do you know if Time Machine itself can back up my Mac to Google Drive ( I have a ton of storage there)? Or can I Only use an external hard drive with Time machine? Thanks for the great content, clear thumbnails, and in depth overview! Keep up the great work! 🌟
Thank you so much for the kind words @zhaystyle! Great question! In my experience and troubleshooting, you wouldn't be able to use the Time Machine Software to Google Drive. Google used to have a tool called "Google Backup & Sync", but they've recently rebranded it to Google Drive for desktop. It's honestly very similar to iCloud Drive, but it still is not Time Machine. I will link it below for reference if you though. New Google Drive for Desktop that replaced Google Backup & Sync www.google.com/drive/download/ I do have a thought, however i'm not 100% it will work... There is another piece of software that I like called: ChronoSync. It's another tool to use to backup files to various places and it may give you options for backing up to Google Drive, but really i'm not sure. I just discovered it a little bit ago and started experimenting with it. It's more robust than Time Machine from what I can see, but what I do know is that the Big Tech companies like users to use their own tools among their own eco systems...if that makes sense. Link to ChronoSync: www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/overview.html In the grand scheme of things as far as backup is concerned, it's always a good goal to have it saved in at least three different places. 1. Someplace locally like an external hard drive at your home. 2. Someplace in the Cloud, like; iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc... 3. Someplace physically offsite, like a personal external drive at a friends house or something. Yes that's probably overkill, but I have heard of people doing it! I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
@@Learnwithjoel THANKS so much, Joel! You definitely make sense & I will check out those links you suggested. Being properly backed up in 2022 is #goals! & Of course, you got a new subscriber! Hope your 2022 is a great one!
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Been a TM user since 2007 or so. The major issue with it is that it is not cloud-friendly. Therefore, it’s not straightforward to implement a true 3-2-1 backup strategy without using multiple solutions. So, I use TM to backup to both an external drive and a local NAS, and I use another solution to move important content to the cloud. It’s not as elegant as I would like, but it works.
Great points @1_lens_view! I would say it's hard to use a tool like Time Machine that was originally designed to backup local devices like the Mac. As far as backing up cloud content, I think it's tricky. Often with new features like "file on demand" It's hard to backup files to a local hard drive, when the cloud files are designed to be offloaded to the cloud and not be stored on the computer. So you're totally right. To have the full true 3-2-1 strategy, it requires multiple options. Thanks for the insight and thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
Thank you Joel!! This will help me immensely! I'm getting ready to upgrade from Macos Ventura 13.4.1 to Sequoia 15.1 Will I be able to go back to Ventura if for some reason I don't like Sequoia using my TM backup? Thanks again, appreciate it. Great Job as always!!! 👍
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Greatest RUclipsr in the world love ❤️ you Joel!!! Also quick question I just want to back up once a month is that ok? Do I have to delete the previous backup or will it override it
Thanks so much @Jennifer! I truly appreciate that! As far as backing up once a month, I would say it all depends on your comfort level of wanting the most recent content backed up, in addition to your computer use. If you are a college student who is typing a ton of papers and you are using the computer all day every day for projects and important information, then I would probably say a month is too long. But if you're not doing much or creating things that you would be ok to lose if something were to happen, then a month is good. There's no one size fits all. You're doing good already by having a backup in general. Also you do not have to delete the previous backups. Time Machine is designed to recognize only the changes and save that information so it doesn't attempt to backup up something that's already been backed up. I hope that helps! Thanks so much for watching! If you haven’t already, please support me by subscribing! It helps more than you know and is greatly appreciated! If you know someone who may benefit from this video, feel free to share it along!
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Another outstanding video. I have been using Apple computers for many years and I am still learning new stuff from your videos. Thank you! My wife is about to order a new MacBook and I want to get her an external drive for Time Machine. The new (7/2022) small SSD drives like the one shown in the video are very appealing. I have a question about them. Some of the information I have read discusses overheating issues. Have you, or anyone reading this, experienced these problems? Thanks for any help and thanks again for the great videos.
Hello, to my understanding TM works only on Mac If you have boot camp / parallel / windows TM won’t back that partook up ? I think carbon copy cloned is one that will, at any rate there are/ or were solutions ou there when I looked into it. It got too complicated for me so I started just backing up docs and photos on externals that were formatted to be compatible with both Mac and windows (before the newer Mac format came along…. Hoping I will still be able to access info on those externals if I need to)
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Hi @VirtutisTipheret! Backing up to a Network Attached Storage (NAS) may vary depending on the brand you have. Synology is a well known brand and is really good and I found easy to setup with their documentation. Synology DS923+ 4-Bay Diskstation NAS amzn.to/3Mft18C If you do get a Synology, check out @SpaceRexWill channel! He has an excellent channel regarding this brand and hard drives and such. He knows his stuff! Another option for backup is to use a RAID setup that has multiple drives. This gives you the ability to plug directly into your Mac without the networking part and if depending on what RAID you choose, if one drive goes bad, you just swap it out with a new drive and it rebuilds all of your files. The concept is that is spreads your data across all the internal hard drives and so if one goes bad, you just "hot swap" it and replace it and you don't lose your files. Pegasus32 R4 16TB amzn.to/3SVWEiU This can be use with Time Machine as well! I recently got a Below are some helpful support guides from Synology and Apple. How do I back up files from my Mac to NAS using Time Machine? kb.synology.com/vi-vn/DSM/tutorial/How_to_back_up_files_from_Mac_to_Synology_NAS_with_Time_Machine#x_anchor_id6fa1f6cdd0 Backup disks you can use with Time Machine support.apple.com/en-us/102423 I hope that helps! THANK YOU so much for watching! It is appreciated more than you know! If this video was useful, I’d love for you to SHARE it with on social media and say how it helped you! Please SUBSCRIBE if you haven’t already, and if you have, THANK YOU for your continued support!
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OMGGG Joel, of all the hundreds of YT hours I have and educational vlogs I WISH I found your channel sooner. Best teacher of the Mac tech know how that I need, just enough detail, clear, concise, visuals. "Hidden" features, EZ pro tips. No channel is better at this guys. Joel pls keep forging ahead.
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So agree. Joel is awesome. So clear, so direct, overall, just a really good teacher.
Joel I am a 76 year old retired businessman who has been using Macs for home and personal use for 25+ years. I agree whole heartedly with Ronny. I wish I had found you sooner.You are the absolute best Mac resource. I have just become one of your newest subscribers and one of your oldest by age. Thank you. I wish you continued success. Ed
Hi Joel, what fantastic content thank you (now subscribed) My 2TB Time Capsule (7years old) is now full & deleting the oldest back ups. I have just purchased a 6TB WD ‘My Book’. When that’s connected do I just disconnect the old Time Capsule, can I transfer the oldest back ups to the new hard drive? Any help would be greatly appreciated as I cannot find an answer to my specific query. Thank you. 👍
Joel. It is late September 2022. I am 71½ years of age. I have never had a computer lesson in my life. I use Macs because I like them. I have learnt more about Time Machine and Pages in 24 minutes 33 seconds than I have ever known in my entire life. I am now a happy old man. Thank you, sir.
Hi can you recover the OS from time machine?
You certainly can @KUMBIRAI NYAMAPFENI!
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Thanks! what a handy little feature! Trying it out on you
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Joel, I am a what could be called a computer illiterate person, and I just have one thing to say: Thank You! It was a very informative video, even I could understand it. So, thank you one more time.
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I was looking for a comprehensive video on Time Machine and NO ONE spoke of backing it up to another device or network. This has been immensely helpful. Thank you so much.
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Another winner from Joel! Had burning Time Machine questions for - years - now, answered!
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I learned a lot and your video is appreciated. Thanks to you I have my computer backed up and I will be backing up my wife’s. You’ve earned a thumbs up and a subscriber.
how did you back it up? i dont think my mac desktop has one because there are no selections when asked
Thank Joel. That is the best, easiest explanation on youtube.
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This was the best video of Time Machine that I found. Thank you for taking the time to put this video together.
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Excellent video Joel, I tried to install MacOs beta yesterday and machine prompted me to do the time machine backup. Until then I had not even thought about it. Glad I found your video. It has everything I wanted. Great work.
The outro took me by surprise. A pleasant surprise :-) thank you, Joel!
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This was a very thorough, in-depth, and easy to understand along the way of what Time Machine is and the various options and possibilities associated with it... Great stuff...!!!
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What a wonderful explanation of Time Machine! It was my first visit to your channel, but I'm now subscribed and will be back often.
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Excellent video, with a clear and easily understandable explanation. I’m familiar with the basic operation of time machine, but this gave some very useful extra information. Really helpful, thanks!
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Best Time Machine video I've seen. Great step by step instructions. Thanks a ton!!
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This is by far the best and most thorough video I have seen on backups for the Mac...it answered so many questions. I have saved this link because I want to see what else you have done, Joel.
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This was a brilliant walkthrough Joel- sat here with a new hard drive looking at the time-machine prompt like WHAT IS DIS.. now I know!
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Very Intensive, informative and helpful. I am a advocate of Time Machine having used it for all my Mac Years and have flawlessly transferred all data from Time Machine (Disk)(LaCie) to my New Mac. It's an amazing utility and everyone that has a Mac should be using this.
Great job on the tutorial/video!!
Hi Bill I hope you don't mind me asking, when the disk is full will Time Machine warn you to allow you not to lose any files that are old that it would otherwise basically start to disgard to make space? Not one video on RUclips it seems to cover this very important point. Last year I lost a file as it was the oldest folder on my back up, seems Time Machine didn't take into account it was the only version as in the oldest and the newest of that project. I keep an eye out manually to see how kuch space is left on the back up disc to avoid it happening again. Thanks.
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A legit concern and one that comes up with my clients a lot. You’re right, Time Machine will not give you a warning before it deletes older versions of backups to make space for new backups. It only stores as many backups as it can fit on that hard-drive.
My rule of thumb? Use a Time Machine (TM for short) hard drive that is twice the size of your Mac’s internal hard-drive capacity. And depending on if you’re adding GBs to your Mac regularly, you may even want to triple or quadruple the size of your Time Machine hard-drive to allow for more backups.
You can kind of calculate how much data you’re using each week or month to figure out how big of a TM hard drive you need.
Look at your Mac’s available storage capacity. You can find this by clicking the Apple 🍏 in the upper left corner of the screen then About This Mac > Storage. If you’re running Ventura or later, select System Settings > search storage.
Note how much storage max capacity you have and how much is AVAILABLE. Check again in a week or two. That’ll give you an idea of your data “burn rate” and how much extra space you need on Time Machine to cover backups. 🎉
For example, if you noted you are currently using 250GB out of 500GB, then you check again in a week and it’s 260GB out of 500GB. That’s a 10GB increase in 1 week.
Say your TM is 1TB or 1000GB - you’d have 740GB of space available for backups. At a burn rate of 10GB per week that’s 74 weeks of backups, give or take depending if you add more, less or delete stuff.
You can also use 2 hard-drives in Time Machine that will alternate backups by adding another backup disk.
All possible options so you don’t have to keep checking manually 😊
I hope that answered your question! 🧡
Joel, what a great Time Machine tutorial. You have managed to answer all the questions I had. Thank you so much.
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Great video. Very thorough. Please also mention that TimeMachine backups are sometimes prone to corrupting, especially if you need to restore a whole computer from backup, so use a good drive, and if able multiple backup locations.
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I agree that you should always have more than one backup and try and follow the 3-2-1 backup strategy. Carbon Copy or ChronoSync are great alternatives to Time Machine!
I think the software experience of Time Machine can be pretty clunky, but if you know where your files are at, you can always drill down to the file location via the Finder.
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Thank you Joel !!! After watching this video I will try to back up my new Mac Book to an older external Hard Drive.
I am an 80-year-old retired ost-production manager/localization producer who has used Macs since TV productions changed from analog to digital workflows (1922). I took training in Avid and Protools but never in OS operation. I just learned by doing so, but I have been frustrated with Time Machine, especially with moving backups to new Macs. In 24:19, I've learned more about Time Machine operation/ Foile Sharing/ Restoration than in 32 years of fumbling around with OS from 9 through 12. That is why I've subscribed to you on RUclips. My only complaint is that I have to view your tutorials on one machine and stop often to recreate your instructions on another machine on another Mac. I guess I am a slow learner these days.
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Great video with lots of detail on time machine. You did this one very important point that is a game changer for me. How to make sure Time Machine backs up external drives. Many people don’t think you can use time machine to back up an external drive but it is indeed possible. Thanks again
Thanks @M Bryars! I probably could have gone a little more in depth on that, but yes, that is a nice option that I don't think is explained very many places.
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Nice Clear instructions, lots of things I didn't know - thanks :). However, I don't trust wireless backups. Back when Time Capsules were new I had my time machine go corrupt after about 3 months, I gave up after this happened 3 times. Not long after I got myself a Synology NAS I set this up for Time Machine and this also corrupted after about 3 months. So I now plug a USB 2TB hard drive into my MacBook Pro and use that so far no problems after over many years.
Fantastic! I donated. I wish I had seen this 3 years ago when I really needed it…hope Apple is paying you !
Excellent Video, really appreciate the insight on how to get this done~
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Excellent teacher, very well done explanations and demos. So useful for a new Mac user.
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AWESOME!!! soo helpful- what a great teacher!!
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Bravo !!! Well Done !!! I'm off to back up my mac !!! Thank you
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Joel, you are awesome!! Great explanation in detail!! Thank you.....thank you so much! :)
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Very good video, thanks for helping out others in case of Backups on Mac!
Best informative I've seen in reference to Time Machine, etc. Thx so much...u r a good teacher:)
Thanks you are very helpful. Easy to understand and not toooooo Fast like most You Tube videos
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This is fantastic!! I know pretty much nothing about this stuff and this helped me so, so much. Amazing work. Really, thank you. :)
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Great video. everything I needed know in one spot. Very helpful, thanks.
Great video. Another approach that expands on the "back up to a remote, shared folder, blessed for Time Machine, that resides on a networked Mac " is to share a externally connected Time Machine drive and share and bless it for TM. As long as you don't have your Time Machine backups encrypted (argh-few hours of head-scratching on that one), the remote Mac-connected Time Machine drive will be available anywhere on your network. Brilliant!
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I loved this... THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
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the best instructional video I've seen. thanks so much
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very well-made tutorial. thanks
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It’s actually *very* good that the Time Capsule is still supported. I have 2 and will be using them until the end of time. They give me backup WiFi’s (beside my high speed router), and backups via Time Machine without having to plug in an external drive!
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Excellent content! Demystified something that wasn't actually all that mysterious once I watch your tutorial. Backing up brand new Time Machine as I type this.
Thanks so much @F Greenfield! Time Machine is a good start to backing up files on your Mac if you don't currently have any backup!
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Great video, you had my attention from ‘start’. Thank you
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Awesome....a lot of information. I plan to watch again tomorrow. I did start my Time Machine back up...thank you. It reads 5 hours but this is an almost full 500gb SSD MacBook Pro from 2016 and I have never backed it up. I will back it up to the 1Tb SSD I bought today then go from there....thank you.
Excellent video! Explained very well. Thank you.
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Excellent very useful tutorial on Mac backup options. Thank you so much!
Excellent video. So thorough and organized. I will actually keep this aside as a reference video because I know with everything thats packed in here I will use it again. New Sub here. Thank you Joel!
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Great video. Time Machine has until now, been a mystery…. Thanks
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Nice Time Machine tutorial. I am glad I found it.
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If you buy a hard drive with more space then you need for a backup you can partition the hard drive and format that partition to a Mac and the other partition to ms-dos or xfat to be used on windows. Im sure you know this but not sure if you have a video on that for others to know. Thank you your videos are verry helpful.
I agree with “O” below. Thank you Joel.
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Thanks for a fantastically clear discussion of Time Machine, which I’d never really understood before. I’m going to set it up tomorrow. And I’ve subscribed to your channel. I hope to learn a lot from you. Thanks again!
Thanks for a helpful and detailed explanation. I've been backing up my macbook with time machine for nearly 10 years and have never yet had to restore anything but it's nice to know how to do it if I need to.
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Thank you for your great video so helpful and you explained everything so clearly and easy to understand, 🙏🏼
Thank you, excellent presentation.
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Just what I needed! Thanks Joel. I can see an individual image in my Adobe Lightroomfolders from my TM Backup. I have no experience of Apple Photos.
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Lightroom is a fantastic application. Certainly a step up from Apple Photos!
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Wow! This was incredibly helpful! Thank you!
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Thanks a lot, I’ve learned many new things through this tutorial.
you put a lot of effort ... thankyou
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thank you. a clear and easily understandable explanation
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Very informative! Thank you!
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Great video000well done, easy to follow and well explained. Good Job--Thanks
Ecxcellent video. Thanks for sharing it.
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Joel, very informative Thx
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Brilliant video, thank you for the priceless info!
I have been having some trouble downloading my TimeMachine backups to my new SSD. The message I received on my last attempt was "The Finder can’t complete the operation because some data in “Photo Library Migration Utility” can’t be read or written.
(Error code -36)".
It would be awesome if you could advise me how I get passed this. I've also tried to simply restore from the old drive via Disk Utility but also ran into problems, apparently the new drive isn't in the right format, even though they are exactly the same (both Mac journaled and GUID partition). Also my new SSD is 1TB where as my old HDD is 2TB. I'm only using around 800GB but am unsure if the new drive needs to not only have enough space, but at least match the storage size of the drive being restored from?
I hope this all made sense and eagerly await a reply from anyone who can help.
14:23 Great picture of you two 👌🏾
Excellent tutorial. Appreciate!
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Very clear and detail video explains everything, 👍
Awsome video, I just got my first macbook pro and it has the M1 chip but going from pc to Mac has been a learning curve and I already had to revert back and downgrade to Monterey because I do music production as a hobby and almost nothing is ready for ventura yet but your video has now given me clear understanding of the time machine and how it all works and how to even set it up.. thanks for the video!
Nice video of the day.
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I just gave up my 2017 MBA for a new M2 MBA. I set up the new one from the old one direct. When I plugged the original Time Machine in it was clearly not performing right. As I really didn’t have anything important from way back I decided to fully reformat in APFS and then started Time Machine from scratch. Much happier. I don’t know what format system I had on the old Time Machine but it really did not like the new machine. Your info here suggests it might have tried to start as a second computer. Anyhow, it’s all great again.
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Very very helpful! Thanks!!
Excelent explanation!
i have had a mac for years and not used this, amazing. i am creating a workbook for my IT students and thought this time machine is great for my dad because he has had issues with his iMac 2009 so a back up now is imperative. i got him an external hard drive i- thank you
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Awesome video! Thank you very much!
Super helpful thank man 👾
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Excellent video. Thank you.
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Lots of good information, thanks!
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This video was a breath of fresh air (it was so clear!) New Subbie! Do you know if Time Machine itself can back up my Mac to Google Drive ( I have a ton of storage there)? Or can I Only use an external hard drive with Time machine? Thanks for the great content, clear thumbnails, and in depth overview! Keep up the great work! 🌟
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Great question! In my experience and troubleshooting, you wouldn't be able to use the Time Machine Software to Google Drive. Google used to have a tool called "Google Backup & Sync", but they've recently rebranded it to Google Drive for desktop. It's honestly very similar to iCloud Drive, but it still is not Time Machine. I will link it below for reference if you though.
New Google Drive for Desktop that replaced Google Backup & Sync
www.google.com/drive/download/
I do have a thought, however i'm not 100% it will work...
There is another piece of software that I like called: ChronoSync. It's another tool to use to backup files to various places and it may give you options for backing up to Google Drive, but really i'm not sure. I just discovered it a little bit ago and started experimenting with it. It's more robust than Time Machine from what I can see, but what I do know is that the Big Tech companies like users to use their own tools among their own eco systems...if that makes sense.
Link to ChronoSync:
www.econtechnologies.com/chronosync/overview.html
In the grand scheme of things as far as backup is concerned, it's always a good goal to have it saved in at least three different places. 1. Someplace locally like an external hard drive at your home. 2. Someplace in the Cloud, like; iCloud, Google Drive, Dropbox, OneDrive, etc... 3. Someplace physically offsite, like a personal external drive at a friends house or something. Yes that's probably overkill, but I have heard of people doing it!
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@@Learnwithjoel THANKS so much, Joel! You definitely make sense & I will check out those links you suggested. Being properly backed up in 2022 is #goals! & Of course, you got a new subscriber! Hope your 2022 is a great one!
Excellent video, thank you so much for posting. Subscribed:)
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Been a TM user since 2007 or so. The major issue with it is that it is not cloud-friendly. Therefore, it’s not straightforward to implement a true 3-2-1 backup strategy without using multiple solutions. So, I use TM to backup to both an external drive and a local NAS, and I use another solution to move important content to the cloud. It’s not as elegant as I would like, but it works.
Great points @1_lens_view! I would say it's hard to use a tool like Time Machine that was originally designed to backup local devices like the Mac. As far as backing up cloud content, I think it's tricky. Often with new features like "file on demand" It's hard to backup files to a local hard drive, when the cloud files are designed to be offloaded to the cloud and not be stored on the computer.
So you're totally right. To have the full true 3-2-1 strategy, it requires multiple options.
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Thank you Joel!! This will help me immensely! I'm getting ready to upgrade from Macos Ventura 13.4.1 to Sequoia 15.1 Will I be able to go back to Ventura if for some reason I don't like Sequoia using my TM backup? Thanks again, appreciate it. Great Job as always!!! 👍
Hi @rapaent,
So typically once you upgrade to a newer macOS, it's a little bit more challenging to revert it back without going through a recovery process and wiping the computer and kinda starting from scratch.
There is a way to go into recovery mode and just install the macOS and not touch system files, but there's always room for error. Using Time Machine you would most likely have to wipe the computer to get it back to the previous macOS and then restore from Time Machine...kinda a pain.
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Greatest RUclipsr in the world love ❤️ you Joel!!! Also quick question I just want to back up once a month is that ok? Do I have to delete the previous backup or will it override it
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As far as backing up once a month, I would say it all depends on your comfort level of wanting the most recent content backed up, in addition to your computer use. If you are a college student who is typing a ton of papers and you are using the computer all day every day for projects and important information, then I would probably say a month is too long. But if you're not doing much or creating things that you would be ok to lose if something were to happen, then a month is good.
There's no one size fits all. You're doing good already by having a backup in general.
Also you do not have to delete the previous backups. Time Machine is designed to recognize only the changes and save that information so it doesn't attempt to backup up something that's already been backed up.
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Finally a working method
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Another outstanding video. I have been using Apple computers for many years and I am still learning new stuff from your videos. Thank you! My wife is about to order a new MacBook and I want to get her an external drive for Time Machine. The new (7/2022) small SSD drives like the one shown in the video are very appealing. I have a question about them. Some of the information I have read discusses overheating issues. Have you, or anyone reading this, experienced these problems? Thanks for any help and thanks again for the great videos.
Hi Joel, great content. Do time machine backup the parallel folders on my mac.... I have parallel with window. Thank you,
Irving
Hello, to my understanding TM works only on Mac
If you have boot camp / parallel / windows TM won’t back that partook up
? I think carbon copy cloned is one that will, at any rate there are/ or were solutions ou there when I looked into it.
It got too complicated for me so I started just backing up docs and photos on externals that were formatted to be compatible with both Mac and windows (before the newer Mac format came along…. Hoping I will still be able to access info on those externals if I need to)
Your videos are one of the best thank you so much
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this is extremely useful, thanks so much!
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I lost you at 22:26. I would love to have that NAS thing...how did you get there? THX
Hi @VirtutisTipheret!
Backing up to a Network Attached Storage (NAS) may vary depending on the brand you have.
Synology is a well known brand and is really good and I found easy to setup with their documentation.
Synology DS923+ 4-Bay Diskstation NAS
amzn.to/3Mft18C
If you do get a Synology, check out @SpaceRexWill channel!
He has an excellent channel regarding this brand and hard drives and such. He knows his stuff!
Another option for backup is to use a RAID setup that has multiple drives. This gives you the ability to plug directly into your Mac without the networking part and if depending on what RAID you choose, if one drive goes bad, you just swap it out with a new drive and it rebuilds all of your files. The concept is that is spreads your data across all the internal hard drives and so if one goes bad, you just "hot swap" it and replace it and you don't lose your files.
Pegasus32 R4 16TB
amzn.to/3SVWEiU
This can be use with Time Machine as well! I recently got a
Below are some helpful support guides from Synology and Apple.
How do I back up files from my Mac to NAS using Time Machine?
kb.synology.com/vi-vn/DSM/tutorial/How_to_back_up_files_from_Mac_to_Synology_NAS_with_Time_Machine#x_anchor_id6fa1f6cdd0
Backup disks you can use with Time Machine
support.apple.com/en-us/102423
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