Computer back up
Hi I have to back up my computer before I send it in and I was wondering how I do that.
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
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The easiest way to make a backup of your Mac is Time Machine. You can set up Time Machine to work silently in the background and make incremental backups of the complete Mac or selected locations. Just connect an external volume: Back up your Mac with Time Machine – Apple Support
Or, if you own cloning software like Carbon Copy Cloner make a clone of the internal drive on an external drive.
There is no iCloud backup of your Mac like for the iPhone or iPad. If you are using iCloud Drive or iCloud Photos your documents and data will remain in iCloud, but that is only a part of the things you need to save. And it is not a backup, because the documents and data are your working copies, synced between all your iCloud devices. Consider them to be the only copy of your documents and data, unless you make a proper backup.
If you are planning to send in your Mac for a repair, I would make two backups, not just one, and test them if the are readable before you send the Mac in for a repair.
