How to Backup Data

Connect the external hard drive to the Mac computer. You can do this using one of your computer’s USB-C ports. To back up data on the Mac operating system, you will need an external hard drive to store the backup data.

• External hard drives must be properly formatted for Mac computers to work properly.
• You can also use a large flash drive at this step.
• If the external hard drive has chosen to use a USB 3.0 connection, you need a USB 3.0 to USB-C adapter to connect the hard drive to the computer.

Open the Apple menu

. Click the Apple icon in the upper left corner of the screen to open the selection list.

Click System Preferences… near the top of the menu.

Click on the Time Machine application with the green watch face icon and the screen will display the Time Machine window.

Click Select Backup Disk… near the top of the page to open a new window.

Select the external hard drive. Click the name of the external hard drive in the window.

Click Use Disk at the bottom of the window to set the external hard drive as the Time Machine backup drive on your Mac.

Click the Time Machine watch face icon in the upper-right corner of the screen to open a selection list.

Click Back Up Now near the top of the drop-down list. This will ask Time Machine to back up the data on your Mac to the external hard drive.

Wait for the backup to complete. You’ll see a “Time Machine has finished…” message when the backup is finished; you can now eject and remove the external hard drive.

Connect iPhone to the computer using the iPhone’s USB charging cord.

Open the iTunes app with multicolored musical notes on a white background.

• If asked to update iTunes, click Download iTunes and wait for the update to install. You may have to restart your computer after performing this step to continue.

Click the iPhone (or iPad if you’re backing up iPad) icon in the upper-left corner of the iTunes window to open the iPhone’s page.

Click Back Up Now in the “Backups” section of the iPhone’s page.

Click Transfer Purchases . If you’ve purchased some products on your iPhone’s iTunes Store, you’ll be asked if you want to save the products to your computer. Click Transfer Purchases if you want to save.

Click the blue Done button in the lower-right corner of the window.

• When prompted, you’ll click Apply before continuing.

Wait for your iPhone to complete the backup process. This usually doesn’t take more than 10 minutes. When your iPhone has finished backing up, you’ll hear a sound and the progress bar above the window will also disappear. At this point, you can disconnect your iPhone from the computer.

Back up data using iCloud. To do this, you usually need more than 5 gigabytes of iCloud storage, and the device must be connected to Wi-Fi (or connect to a power source, too). Back up data to iCloud in the following way:

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• Tap your name at the top of the page
• Choose iCloud
• Scroll down and select iCloud Backup .
• Tap the slider
  

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• Select OK when prompted
• Select Back Up Now

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Settings of your Android device by tapping the app with a gear icon or a set of sliders.

• You can also use two fingers to swipe the screen down from the top and then select the gear icon in the upper right or lower left corner.

Scroll down and select Backup and reset near the middle of the Settings page.

Select Back up my data under the heading “Google account”.

Tick the On option to enable automatic backup for Android devices.

• On some Android phones or tablets, you’ll have to tap to switch the slider
  

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Tap the “Back” arrow in the upper-left corner of the screen.

Make sure your Google account is a backup account. Tap Backup account and find your Gmail address. If you don’t see an email address, select Add account and then enter the email address and password for the Google account you want to use.

Enable “Automatic Restore”. Tap the slider

“Automatic restore”. This will change the color of the slider

indicates that Automatic Restore mode is enabled. This mode automatically updates your backup settings, apps, and files on any Android device you’re signed in to.

Tap the “Back” button to return to the Settings page.

Pull up the screen and select Accounts near the top of the page. The last thing you need to do is make sure your Google account information is backed up.

Select Google at the top of the page.

Select your Google account. Tap the account you want to back up.