So you're cloning your drive and you do your clone. These are important files and you want to make sure they're backed up. Let's say it's Monday and you create three files, A, B, and C. Now let me show you why cloning fails in a lot of cases. You just attach an external drive and Time Machine will automatically back your things up once you've set it up. You don't have to learn really much to use it. You don't have to have any special software.
The other reason is, of course, the Time Machine is just built in. It keeps this history there and it's so much more useful than a clone. So you can find deleted or modified files. You can go back in time to see what your hard drive looked like yesterday, last week, last month.
You can go back in time which is why it's called Time Machine. If you delete the file it keeps around the old deleted version even as that version gets days, weeks, and months old where hasn't even been on your drive, it will still be there on the backup because it's doing it incrementally. If you change a file it takes the changed file but it keeps the old file as well. So you create a new file it adds a new file. It's storing every file you've got on your Mac now and then as you make changes it's recording those changes. The way it does this is it does this through incremental backups. So the advantages of a backup over cloning are that it stores a copy of all of your files, even ones you've deleted. It's not nearly as good as simply using the Time Machine software built into your Mac. You put this on an external hard drive and you've got a clone of what is on your Mac. Cloning is a method where you use a special piece of software to make an exact duplicate of your internal hard drive on your Mac. Video Transcript: I'm surprised that I hear from so many people that they still use cloning as a way to backup their hard drive. Check out Stop Cloning Your Hard Drive As a Backup at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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