HT201250: Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac
Learn about Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac
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Jul 8, 2015 3:15 AM in response to rosie@thefarmby léonie,iCloud Drive is no backup of your Mac. You can store documents and data there, but your applications and the contents of your user library with all your settings will not be saved, and so you cannot restore your mac from the iCloud Drive contents. This is different for iOS devices, that can be restored from an iCloud backup.
To backup your Mac get yourself a portable drive and set up Time Machine to backup your Mac completely to the external drive. The first backup may take a long time, but subsequent backps will be much faster, because only the changes need to be saved. This is faster than a cloud backup, and you will not have to depend on a network connection to get your data back.