The security that the information on our hard drives must have has to be effective, since it may be too important for it to be lost from one moment to the next due to some type of unforeseen event; If there are currently different ways to make a backup in Windows, What happens with Apple computers? The solution for this platform comes from Time Machine, being a fairly optimal system when it comes to making this type of backups.
People who are starting out with a MacBook Pro might encounter certain problems when it comes to make this backup with your Time Machine, this being the main reason why we will dedicate some time to indicate a few basic aspects that will help us make a backup copy of information on one of these computers.
Configuring our Mac computer with Time Machine
We will start by saying, that Time Machine requires an external hard drive to be able to make this type of backup copies; For this reason, the first thing we will need to do is connect this hard drive to our Mac computer; If we have not used Time Machine before with another hard drive, the message will appear suggesting that we configure the one we have connected, as a device to perform this backup. If the hard drive was left in NTFS or FAT32 this way, a message will be shown suggesting that the hard drive will be formatted to a Mac HFS+ system, which means that all the information contained therein will be lost.
The image that you can admire at the top is that window that you will find the first time I tried to configure Time Machine to external hard drive. There you have the option to activate the small box that will help you encrypt the backed up data; Now you would only have to click on the button «Use as Backup Disk» to prepare the device as a recovery drive.
An icon will be located in the menu bar, the same as will help you open Time Machine preferences; Although we are going to use an external hard drive, you could also find one that is connected to the network. Once the Time Machine preferences appear, we will have the possibility of turning the service on or off, all depending on the type of backup we are going to make.
Once we have selected our external hard drive with Time Machine, we must choose the Options button to be able to exclude folders and directories that we do not want to backup.
Now, if we are going to have the hard drive connected constantly then the ideal would be for the service to always be on (activated). Most people usually connect to the hard drive eventually, therefore having to select the switch as off, which means that The backup will be done manually.
That's all we need to do to be able to Back up all the information on our MacBook Pro with Time Machine, being a relatively easy process to carry out and that does not involve any type of exceptional work; Now, you may be wonderingor how can I recover my backup? If at a certain time the operating system fails and you previously made this backup as we have suggested, in a very easy and simple way you will be able to recover absolutely everything.
All you have to do is restart (or turn on) your MacBook Pro and hold down the Command + R key for a moment, which will bring up a window that will help you Restore the System using a small wizard.
Before turning on your computer and using the keyboard shortcut we suggested, you should have connected to the hard drive that was backed up with Time Machine. Depending on the amount of information you have backed up, the time it will take to recover absolutely everything will be.