You should be backing up your Mac in more than one way — try these three
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How do you back up your Mac locally and off-site or online, so all your important photos and files stay safe and sound? Like this! You have to back up your Mac. If you don`t, you will lose something essential, and there will be nothing you can do to get it back. Therefore, back up, and do it now. And do it using one of the solutions below. Back up time: Why do you need to back up? What`s a local backup? What`s Time Machine? What about `cloning` for local backup? What`s off-site backup What about online or cloud backup? What about iCloud, Dropbox, and Google Drive — can`t you use them? Why do you need to back up? One copy of your data is no copies at all. That`s because hard drives and solid-state drives (SSD) fail. By contrast, two copies of your data are really just one copy since there`s a chance both could fail at the same time. To make sure your data is safe, you want to back it up in a way that minimizes the chance you could ever lose it. Realistically, that means ...