Your new download is years later and they now have Fab Backup 7. Then you find that they're not there, they went out of business six months ago. Oh, you haven't got the backup app on your new computer. OK you think, I have a backup and will buy a replacement computer.

Suddenly your computer has a catastrophic failure. You've been backing up for 5 years using an app. Add in a dose of reality and this is what will happen:ġ.

Why? Because if you use an application to back up your files you also need to use it to restore them. I am generally averse to using any proprietary backup software. It will grow but not by any dramatic rate increase over the next few years. Do you feel a 2TB size is sufficient to back up a music library with a current size of 850GB. I've thought about getting two more 2TB SSD like my SSD now used for my Music Library to use as the backups. I have a reason to use external portable versus desktop units for backup and storage. Can you advise which software solution would be best and how to properly set it up? Additionally the HDD I use now are external portable 4TB units. I want both my MacBook and my Music Library which is on an external SSD to be backed up at the same time. I have used Carbon Copy Cloner in the past but I would consider myself very novice in understanding the set up and advantage of using one or the other. I'm unsure if it is the HDD or Time Machine causing this unusual (it seems to me) long back up time (several hours vs a few minutes). I am experiencing some slowdown in the time it takes to backup. I have primarily used Time Machine on two external HDD as primary and secondary (weekly/monthly) backups.

Backup mac to icloud vs time machine