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My mac is going in for repair - is there an easy way to make it safe (i.e) backup I am very much in my later years and this whole performance is worrying me, I may leave myself open to allowing my details to be used. Thanks

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.4

Posted on Jul 19, 2021 8:17 AM

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Posted on Jul 19, 2021 8:46 AM

coneywarren-palscabin wrote:

My mac is going in for repair - is there an easy way to make it safe (i.e) backup I am very much in my later years and this whole performance is worrying me, I may leave myself open to allowing my details to be used. Thanks

Backup is simple— you need an external HD go from there.

—Back up your Mac with Time Machine: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250

Learn how to get your Mac fixed and how much it will cost. https://support.apple.com/mac/repair/service

Get your Mac ready for service - Apple Support https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209095

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All Time Machine backups take too long 2018 Mac mini running macOS 12.6.1. I have an 8TB USB drive connected to the machine with two volumes on APFS. One volume I use to Time Machine backup my laptop over the network, and that seems to work just fine. The other volume is a local Time Machine volume for the mini. This is a fairly new disk and it was all working fine for a couple of weeks, but now the local backup takes forever and seems to find hundreds of thousands of files to backup. It takes over 24 hours to complete. Then the next time Time Machine starts, it all happens again, hundreds of thousands of changes found and it runs for 24+ hours. It's almost like the mini doesn't recognize that it only has to do an incremental backup. I know for sure there aren't all that many changes between each backup run. I've double checked the Excludes From Backup options and that all looks reasonable (it excludes both the local and remote TM volumes, iCloud, OneDrive, and Dropbox folders). I can't find anything else that would include so much changes. It estimates the size of a full backup at 1.68TB which appears to be the entire Macintosh HD (303.64GB available of 2TB). I can't find any other settings that would cause TM to do a full backup every single time and I've rebooted the machine at least once to see if that fixes the problem, to no avail. I can't upgrade this machine to Ventura yet due to compatibility issues. Any ideas what's going on or what to look for?
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leroydouglas

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Jul 19, 2021 8:46 AM in response to coneywarren-palscabin

coneywarren-palscabin wrote:

My mac is going in for repair - is there an easy way to make it safe (i.e) backup I am very much in my later years and this whole performance is worrying me, I may leave myself open to allowing my details to be used. Thanks

Backup is simple— you need an external HD go from there.

—Back up your Mac with Time Machine: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250

Learn how to get your Mac fixed and how much it will cost. https://support.apple.com/mac/repair/service

Get your Mac ready for service - Apple Support https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209095

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