Backing up your Mac hard drive
Backup options for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- Time Machine - Learn how to set up Time Machine to perform backups to external hard drives, Time Capsule and more.
- Time Capsule - Learn more about backing up your data with Time Capsule.
- External hard drive - Use Lion Recovery Disk Assistant toback up your computer's hard drive to an external hard drive.
- iCloud - Learn more about backups using iCloud if your Mac is running Lion.
Backup options for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Time Machine - Learn how to set up Time Machine to perform backups to external hard drives, Time Capsule and more.
- Time Capsule - Learn more about backing up your data with Time Capsule.
- External hard drive - There are several ways you can back up your computer's hard drive to an external hard drive.
- Disk Utility - If you need to back up more files than can fit on a single CD or DVD, you can use Disk Utility to create a compressed disk image of the files.
- Learn more about how to backup and restore your files.
Backup options for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
- Time Machine - Learn how to set up Time Machine to perform backups to external hard drives, Time Capsule and more.
- Time Capsule - Learn more about backing up your data with Time Capsule.
- External hard drive - There are several ways you can back up your computer's hard drive to an external hard drive.
- Disk Utility - If you need to back up more files than can fit on a single CD or DVD, you can use Disk Utility to create a compressed disk image of the files.