I know the hype for iCloud says any file, but no Logic X icon appears in the system preferences iCloud box. You cannot keep photo libraries there however. All iCloud drive documents will be mirrored on your Mac. No, you can copy any kind of Documents to iCloud drive, if you keep them outside the predefined application collections, and there is a size limit of 5GB, if I remember correctly. These shadow copies are included in your regular time Machine backup, so you can restore your iCloud documents from Time Machine, if you should accidentally delete a document from iCloud drive, that you still need. All documents and data from iCloud drive are having local shadow copies on all your devices, so you can still work with them, if you are offline. It is a syncing service with a central storage in one place, that will ensure that all your devices are having access to your documents in one place, even when they are offline. iCloud is not meant to be used as a backup of your documents and data. Data is restored to your Mac.Does this mean that iCloud will only backup files on an internal disk so it copies them from external disks to the main internal one? Is this an external hard drive/iCloud issue? Is there any way to set this up properly?Īll iCloud Drive files will be stored on your system drive as well, yes.

Address any prompts that appear on the screen (grant Administrative access, etc.)

The Graphical Timeline to the right of the Time Machine windowīrowse to, and select files/folders you wish to restore.

You can navigate Time Machine through the following:

Open Finder - Applications - Time Machine.At this point Time Machine prepares the drive and backs up selected data. At this point the folder size Calculations and Adjustments are made. Select files/folders and click on the Exclude button.Click on the + button to change what is excluded by Time machine.At this point the Backup Disk is selected and the next Time Machine Backup will start in 120 Seconds (2 Minutes).Įxcluding items from Time Machine backup plan ( Options): Select a drive and click on the Use Disk button.

A window opens showing External Storage Drives connected to your Mac. Setting up the external drive to be used with Time Machine: Use this link for instructions on formatting your drive For macOS versions for 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to 10.15 (Catalina) use Mac OS Extended (Journaled) also referred to as HFS+ when setting up a new backup.For Big Sur use Apple File System (APFS) when setting up a new backup.MacOS requires that a drive be formatted with a specific file system to be used with Time Machine Setting up the external drive to be used with Time MachineĮxcluding items from Time Machine backup planįormatting a drive to be used with Time Machine:

Restore mac from external hard drive