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  1. TDF

    Backup Archive / CrashPlan / Carbonite?

    Hey all, I am a musician and content creator with years of video, photo and music content. Some of my Photos Libraries are as big as 450GB and I have multiple others that are around 200GB. I am looking to add a cloud based storage incase I do get a lightning strike or power surge or...
    • TDF
    • Thread
    • archive backup carbonite crashplan external icloud library photos time machine video
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  2. Tesla1856

    Seeking the ultimate Image-based backup solution for my Mac with Windows-10 BootCamp

    Is anyone else interested in a one-step, whole-system, Image-based backup solution for their macOS system with a BootCamp Windows-10 partition? If you have been around computers for a while, you know drives can fail at any time. Backups are mandatory. I additionally like whole system...
  3. K D

    What Back Up is on my MAC ?

    Hello Friends, I am using iCloud to backup my iPhone and using Airport Time Capsule to backup my Mac, but I found 293 GB of Backup is showing in my Macintosh, what is that ?
    • K D
    • Thread
    • backup
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: iMac
  4. Q

    Assistance on setting up my Time Machine backup on my friend's MacBook

    Hello, I'm soon going on vacation and I'm planning to take an external hard drive, which contains my MacBook's Time Machine backup in it, but I won't take the MacBook itself with me. I will leave it back home so my brother (and business partner) can use it. For the next couple of months I will...
  5. F

    Cannot backup my Whatsapp on Iphone

    My Whatsapp backup is stuck for almost a month and the manual backup option does not show. I have enough storage space in my iCloud, and its enabled for whatsapp backup. Any idea what is the problem?
  6. S

    "Manage Storage, Next Backup Size" takes forever

    Settings: General: Storage & iCloud Usage: iCloud "Manage Storage": Backups: Next Backup Size... Why does it take hours for my iPhone to determine my "Next Backup Size"for iCloud, and the backup sizes of all my various apps? I understand it should take a little bit of time but it literally...
  7. O

    consolidate scattered files and new backup strategy

    I'm about to get a new (finally upgraded) iMac, and because of a history of glitches and panic/repair/recovery of files, my documents are now scattered across a number of places: in addition to the internal drive they're on two external hard drives, Dropbox, Crashplan, iCloud drive. Plus the...
  8. P

    Phantom/ghost icloud backup can't be deleted

    Hi Has anyone else encountered a problem with a device backup stuck in iCloud which can't be deleted? The only references I could find related to problems people has while running the beta of iOS9 (which thinking back, I did briefly install). I contacted apple support through twitter explaining...
  9. jent

    Way to see ignored files from Time Machine restoration?

    I recently restored a macOS installation from Time Machine. My backups excluded the Downloads folder and a few video folders with big files. I know those folders, obviously, since upon restoration they remain in the Time Machine settings, but I'm wondering if macOS keeps a log of the names of...
    • jent
    • Thread
    • backup macos time machine
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS
  10. Y

    Trying to create a bootable backup

    Hi, First, I've been a somewhat technically proficient Mac user since 1984 but this has me really stuck. I recently bought a pair of Seagate 8TB drives to use as primary and backup of project volumes. I also created separate partitions for Yosemite, El Cap, and my current Sierra system. I...
  11. Z

    how would you back em up?

    Hi, i would like some advice on how would you believe is the best way to use a HDDbay (OWC Mercury Elite Pro Qx2) in order to keep a backup of my files that are located in multiple devices… - iMac (mid2010) that has two drives on it (one SSD that contains the OS and apps and one HDD) - iPhone -...
  12. L

    Transfer iPhone backup from Win Vista to Mac

    My phone tried to update the other night and instead, went into factory reset mode. I hooked up to my PC which runs Vista (where my most recent backup was), but the software wasn't compatible with the new update and I was unable to restore my old backup to the phone. Long story short, I was...
  13. OldSchoolMacGuy

    Backing Up Single File On Single Drive With Time Machine

    I've got Time Machine backing up my main drive but due to lack of storage space on it, I've had to move my Photos Library to one of the other internal drives on my Mac mini (180GB library). Any way to set Time Machine to backup just the Photos Library file on that drive, rather than the other...
  14. O

    Creating backup for MacBook Pro

    Hey all! I have a faulty MacBook Pro from 2011 that was from a line of MacBooks that had issues with the graphics card. The graphics card didn't fail on me until feb 2017, and Apple's warranty was up on Dec 31, 2016. (I swear they make their products to last only until the next version comes...
  15. E

    How to backup my Live Photos to PC?

    hi! anyone knows how to backup my live photos from iphone to pc (windows). i am not asking to play those photos on pc, i just want to backup them and for couple of months/years be able to take it back to my iphone. is there any way to do this? i know live photos is combination of .jpg and .mov...
    • eddimax
    • Thread
    • backup live photos
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: iOS 10
  16. S

    Is restoring from backup the worst thing ever?

    Please tell me if I'm an idiot or doing things totally wrong, or is restoring your iPhone from a backup the worst thing ever? My wife recently had some iPhone trouble. We were told we needed to restore the phone to factory settings before we brought it in for repair. The phone does regular...
  17. Thor774

    Offsite backup question

    I am polishing my backup routine. Some years ago when my main PC was a Windows machine I had this setup: - 512GB internal SSD with OS and program installations. - 2 TB internal disk for storage - 3 TB internal disk for storing local encrypted daily images of my 2 other disks going back...
    • Thor774
    • Thread
    • backup cloning image
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: macOS
  18. B

    Exporting/Saving Messages

    Hey, I'm new here. I'm sure this has been posted multiple times but I can't seem to find it via search, so apologies in advance if this is annoying... I need to set up my new phone from scratch and not as a restore of an old backup... But my old backup (and the 5+ years of history in it)...
    • BDS28
    • Thread
    • backup export imessage ios iphone messages save sms
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: iPhone
  19. D

    Backup help

    i wanted to restore my iphone so will the backup which is made by itunes include all my snaps in snapchat and all the messages in whatsapp ? If not how can i back them up?
  20. Q

    How to backup iCloud Photo Library

    I am using iCloud photo library and have chosen to download originals to my MacBook Pro because I want to have local copies of all my photos. My SSD is almost full and I will most likely have to switch to optimising mac storage and storing originals only in iCloud. I would like to be able to...
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