What is the best way to backup an external hard drive full of photos and videos to another external hard drive?

In layman terms without all this stuff that I have no idea what you are talking about. What is a good external hard drive to use to back up my mac and if anything happens to my mac will this be able to boot up my mac?

Purchase a good quality hard drive from here.

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OR

External SSD

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OR

if your Mac has a Thunderbolt port.

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Format any of these drives, using OS X Disk Utility, as an OS X extended format (journaled) with GUID partition scheme.

And purchase and learn to use Bombich Software's CarbonCopyCloner to make an exact, OS X bootable clone to the external drive of your choice.

http://bombich.com/

I have used this data cloning app for over a decade and have multiple cloned backups with different versions of OS X on three different, large capacity external hard drives.

Good Luck!

Drag and drop is the simplest and fool proof method.

Ciao.

If you want an exact clone you will need to use a utility like Disk Utility, Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!

Apple AirPort Time Capsule 2TB or 3TB, they are a great WiFi and user friendly, the only thing they are missing is a thunderbolt connection or USB 3.1 for faster data transfer.

Great Information…..Right to the Point, Fred…..Will have followup questions once I try to implement the task.

Thanks