Guides

Backing up a Mac: with built-in tools, with restic and with Lifeboat.

• Time Machine to a NAS stopped working: what now?
  Time Machine shows errors with your NAS or stopped backing up? The common causes with Synology, QNAP and SMB, step by step, and a plan B.
• Back up a Mac to Cloudflare R2 or Backblaze B2
  How to back up your Mac, encrypted, to Cloudflare R2 or Backblaze B2: create a bucket, a key with few rights, estimate the cost, back up with restic.
• The 3-2-1 backup rule, simply explained
  Three copies, two kinds of storage, one offsite: what the 3-2-1 backup rule means and how to follow it on a Mac without much effort.
• How to check that your Mac backup works
  “Backup complete” does not mean files can be restored. How to test your Mac backup in ten minutes, with Time Machine or restic.
• Replacing a Time Capsule: alternatives for the Mac
  Apple no longer makes the Time Capsule, and newer macOS versions phase out old network protocols. The alternatives, and how to move over.
• restic on the Mac without the command line
  restic is a strong open source backup tool, but a Terminal program. What restic does, what the commands mean, and how to use it on a Mac without Terminal.