How To Backup An External Hard Drive To Another External Hard Drive (On Your Mac)

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Watch how to backup an external drive you have for your Mac. Back it up to a 2nd external drive and have two copies of your files.
Got photos, files, or music and your only copy is on a external drive? Then that's a potential single point of failure.
Even a Time Machine backup of your Mac to an external drive is a single point of failure.
Use Time Machine. Software you have for free on your Mac to take another backup.
What's covered and timings:
00.05 How To Backup An External Drive And Your Mac's Internal Drive To Another External Drive On Your Mac
02.30 How To Backup Only Your External Drive To Another External Drive On Your Mac
After Watching the video why not take a look at the full blog post at this link here.
mactakeawaydata.com/backup-ex...
Music Credit: Behind My Back, by RAGE

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  • @milessmiles65
    @milessmiles653 жыл бұрын

    I wish you spoke this was so confusing

  • @seemisamuel

    @seemisamuel

    2 жыл бұрын

    watch this video instead kzread.info/dash/bejne/YqBo2KyvpN3ckrg.html

  • @reginaryerson6293
    @reginaryerson62939 ай бұрын

    Perfect. Thanks for moving your cursor slowly! So I can absorb it all. The music is OK- we can always mute that if needed.

  • @charlesleung3783
    @charlesleung37837 ай бұрын

    absolutely helpful and solve the exact problem i'm having!! Huge thanks

  • @vwood2
    @vwood23 жыл бұрын

    Thank you very much! Extremely helpful 👌

  • @fedorlilith
    @fedorlilith3 жыл бұрын

    Thanks. Your video helps me a lot.

  • @madrass4987
    @madrass49875 ай бұрын

    thank you exactly what I’ve been looking for 🙏🏽

  • @EddieSlowhands
    @EddieSlowhands3 ай бұрын

    Hi there ! Thanks for such a great and simple to follow video. I've been looking at drive cloning software and got confused ! Your how to video looks really straightforward to use on my MacBook Pro so huge thanks again ! Best Regards - Eddie.

  • @wordlifeatthethrone
    @wordlifeatthethrone3 жыл бұрын

    This video is excellent!!!

  • @kingpuppet5881
    @kingpuppet58813 жыл бұрын

    Thank you.

  • @101hamilton
    @101hamilton3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for posting this great video. Please can you answer this question? Both my external hard drives are greyed out in backup exclusion. Both are formatted correctly since I use both of them already on my MacBook Pro. How can I take them out of the greyed out stated and exclude them?

  • @lassuperbruscas

    @lassuperbruscas

    Жыл бұрын

    I got the same error. Did somebody figure it out yet?

  • @LCohenSax
    @LCohenSax2 жыл бұрын

    Its a good video with the bad music muted.

  • @konradplaczki
    @konradplaczki Жыл бұрын

    I guess its not working anymore

  • @raperk1
    @raperk13 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. This makes me confident there is a way to back up an external hard drive using Time Machine. However when I go to "exclude drives from backups" my external drive is grayed out and I cannot delete it. My external file storage drive is 4T with 2.6T used for files. Could it be too large for Time Machine. This is extremely important to me (because of the importance of my backed-up files) and I would be extremely grateful if you could help me. By the way, an Apple Help desk senior adviser told me this week that you CANNOT BACKUP UP AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE USING TIME MACHINE. I'm hoping he's wrong.

  • @michaelfireborn7217

    @michaelfireborn7217

    3 жыл бұрын

    I get the same thing. I can't exclude my 2nd external hd

  • @Deerugs

    @Deerugs

    3 жыл бұрын

    wow :( Im struggling with this exact same thing as well

  • @cmin7flat5

    @cmin7flat5

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ditto...

  • @derrickthurmond2470

    @derrickthurmond2470

    6 ай бұрын

    I can’t minus (exclude) my hard drive that I need to back up

  • @klarazubonja
    @klarazubonja3 жыл бұрын

    It won't let me exclude my other hard drive :(

  • @brandonbera2323

    @brandonbera2323

    3 жыл бұрын

    same

  • @raperk1

    @raperk1

    3 жыл бұрын

    I have the same issue. The external drive I want to back up has 2.6T of data on it. How much data are you trying to back up from you external drive?

  • @alexkatz3619

    @alexkatz3619

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also same. Any luck with this?

  • @klarazubonja

    @klarazubonja

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alexkatz3619 Nope :(

  • @capybera

    @capybera

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@alexkatz3619 I did find a fix although I don’t quite remember it as this point. It may have had something to do with how the drive was formatted? I think there’s a format that is compatible with both Mac and PC, and one that’s just for Mac. I think formatting the hard drive for Mac made it come up. I could be wrong but that may give you something to work off of.

  • @markbraun6294
    @markbraun62942 ай бұрын

    Use your voice!

  • @Beauty.and.FashionPhotographer
    @Beauty.and.FashionPhotographer3 жыл бұрын

    You should re-phrase your intro titel to : ........... How To 1 : Backup an external Drive ...OR...... Your mac's internal Drive...... for You have now....... "AND".... although your video shows an "OR" drive.... not an "AND drive" ,.......as in backing up external and internal at the same time... this is all very missguiding

  • @premawilson8353
    @premawilson8353Ай бұрын

    Wasting my time looking at ur channel

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