BACKUP YOUR MAC! - IN-DEPTH look at Apple Time Machine and many ways to save and recover your files!

Everyone should have a backup for their digital life! In this video I discuss using Time Machine to backup your Mac. We also talk about various methods of using Time Machine like backing up to external hard drives, other Macs, and a brief look at Network Attached storage systems like Synology.

00:00 | Welcome Back!
00:50 | What is a Backup?
03:20 | How to identify the format of current external hard drive
03:40 | Setup options for Time Machine
05:27 | Pros and cons of Time Machine
07:24 | Encrypt your Time Machine Backup
09:14 | Time Machine Backup iCloud Photos
11:00 | Using Time Machine with multiple Macs
12:12 | Time Machine and Migration Assistant - New Mac
12:49 | Restore a deleted file using Time Machine
14:44 | Apple Bring this Feature BACK!
15:11 | Recover files based of file type using Time Machine
16:05 | Snapshots - Restore from Previous versions
19:03 | Setup Time Machine to use another Mac
21:55 | Backup using Synology NAS
22:46 | Verify Time Machine Network Backups

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[rono]

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.

[alangeorgebarstow]

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.

[Orwic]

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!

[commonuse]

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.

[enzorocha]

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 YouTube is a gift. More power to you.

[kmdesign]

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!

[alolsen]

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 YouTube channel continues to grow. Be well.

[helendroitsch]

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.

[rickeisner]

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!

[maryfrantzoulou]

Joel, what a great Time Machine tutorial. You have managed to answer all the questions I had. Thank you so much.

[billgirolamo]

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!!

[tinlizziestudios]

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!

[dtmbmwi]

This was the best video of Time Machine that I found. Thank you for taking the time to put this video together.

[ericchang]

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.

[fgreenfield]

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.

[dennisrogers]

Best Time Machine video I've seen. Great step by step instructions. Thanks a ton!!

[robertbrzheintzbrz]

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!

[mbryars]

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

[kkay]

Another winner from Joel! Had burning Time Machine questions for - years - now, answered!

[ottokite]

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.