

Intego’s Personal Backup – part of the Mac Premium Bundle – takes things further, enabling you to clone a drive so you have a bootable backup, make selective backups, and gain more control over scheduling. Time Machine is built into every Mac – just plug in an external hard drive ($50 will buy a small, almost silent, portable 1TB one), confirm when macOS asks if you want to use it for Time Machine, and your data will start getting backed up. It pays to be prepared.Īpple makes it easy to safeguard your data.

From cherished photos of your children to essential work documents, any digital information can abruptly vanish in the event of hardware failure or theft. Any data that you don’t have multiple copies of is vulnerable to loss or corruption. More often than not I've needed a file on mobile while on the road yet been unable to access it for download because it's size is reportedly too large.How To How and why you should backup Macs to the cloudīacking up your Mac is vital. Is there a necessary or unavoidable technological limitation causing this? If it's just a proprietary business decision, drop it. I don't believe there should be a bandwith cap on downloadable files. Clearly the uploads continue but the app just isn't gathering/reporting it well at all.Ģ. I'll finally see a new total and it'll be a couple dozen more gigabytes. After a week or so of refreshing the app or killing the app using the multitasking/app-switcher/app-killer function then re-starting the app.

Unfortunately, I find the upload total rarely updates. Consequently, while away from home on business I like to pull up the app to check my upload process (not to mention occasionally retrieve files). I have a Mac Mini with a large external drive that's still trying to finish the initial upload after a couple months. The app is incredibly reluctant to grab updated summary information from the Backblaze servers. I really like the Backblaze service, but the app is terribly limited in at least two ways that impact it's usability for me:ġ.
