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Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac, 4th Edition
by Joe Kissell
Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac, 4th Edition
Read Me First
Introduction
Quick Start
Plan a Backup Strategy
Reassess Your Backup Strategy
Choose Local or Network Backups
Choose Backup Software
Choose Backup Hardware
Prepare Your Backup Drive
Configure and Use Time Machine
Use Other Versioned Backup Software
Create and Use a Duplicate
Store an Extra Backup Offsite
What to Do When Disaster Strikes
Manage Your Media
Consider Special Backup Needs
About This Book
Also by Joe Kissell
Copyright and Fine Print
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Table of Contents
Read Me First
Updates and More
Basics
Settings vs. Preferences
What’s New in Version 4.4.1
What Was New in Version 4.4
What Was New in Version 4.3
Introduction
Quick Start
Plan a Backup Strategy
Understand Joe’s Basic Backup Strategy
Why Create Versioned Backups?
Why Create Bootable Duplicates (or Not)?
Why Use External Storage?
Why Use Multiple Partitions (or Not)?
Why Automate Backups?
Why Keep Multiple Backups?
Why Store Backups Offsite?
Can Cloud Sync Simplify Backups?
Can You Reduce Your Backup Footprint?
Reassess Your Backup Strategy
What’s New in Mac Backups
Factors to Reevaluate
Choose Local or Network Backups
Local Backups
Network Backups
Local vs. Network Backups: Joe’s Recommendations
Choose Backup Software
Decide Whether Time Machine Is Best for You
Explore Versioned Backup Features
Choose Another Versioned Backup App
Choose a Bootable Duplicate App
Choose Backup Hardware
Choose Hard Drives, SSDs, or Both
Decide on Capacity
Decide on a Storage Configuration
Hardware You Should Probably Avoid
Prepare Your Backup Drive
Choose the Right Partition Map Scheme
Decide How Many Partitions and Volumes to Make
Decide How to Format Your Partitions
Configure Your Drive
Configure and Use Time Machine
Time Machine Basics
Configure a Destination
Exclude Files from Time Machine
Manage Your Time Machine Schedule
Restore Data with Time Machine
Delete Files from a Time Machine Backup
Use a Mac as a Time Machine Server
Use a Single Backup Disk with Multiple Macs
Use Power Nap
Migrate to a Larger Time Machine Disk
Avoid or Solve Time Machine Problems
Use Other Versioned Backup Software
Arq Tips
Carbon Copy Cloner Tips
ChronoSync Tips
QRecall Tips
Retrospect Tips
Test Your Versioned Backup
Create and Use a Duplicate
Give the Destination Volume a Unique Name
Create a Duplicate in Mojave or Catalina
Create a Bootable Duplicate in Big Sur or Later
Test Your Bootable Duplicate
Create a Data-Only Duplicate
Store an Extra Backup Offsite
Use an Extra Hard Drive or SSD
Use a Cloud Backup Service
What to Do When Disaster Strikes
Restore Individual Files
Use Your Bootable Duplicate
Restore a Disk from a Bootable Duplicate
Restore a Disk from a Data-Only Duplicate
Manage Your Media
What to Do When Your Disks Fill Up
Consider Long-Term Archive Storage
Consider Special Backup Needs
Back Up Digital Photos
Deal with Huge Volumes of Data
Back Up a NAS
Back Up Data from the Cloud
Back Up While on the Road
Back Up an iOS or iPadOS Device
Back Up Windows Files and Volumes
About This Book
Ebook Extras
About the Author and Publisher
Credits
Also by Joe Kissell
Copyright and Fine Print
Cover
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