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#Mac time machine for windows mac os

WD hard drive to exFAT or FAT 32 to make it compatible with Mac and PC.

You might be prompted for your password, if you chose an encryption option. Western Digital has released a data backup software known as WD Smartware.

Check the size of your disk image - mine kept changing so make sure your allocated size is correct.

Finally, choose sparse bundle disk image as the Image Format.

Select the Single partition - Apple Partition Map as the option for Partitions.

You will be prompted to enter a password so make sure it's something you will remember - you don't want to be teased with a backup that you can't open in times of need!

I would recommend choosing Encryption and 128-bit is fine for me.

#Mac time machine for windows mac os

Make sure Mac OS Extended (Journaled) is selected as the Format.For me, I entered 200 GB as it's unlikely my 240 GB MacBook Pro will ever be this full. Enter the maximum amount of size your virtual drive should be.In the Save As window, browse to your Cloud drive folder and give your virtual drive a name, such as MacBookTM.From the File menu, choose New Image > Blank Image.You will find this in the Applications folder, or like me, just call up Spotlight and type it in. Other great apps like Time Machine are Duplicati (Free, Open Source), Reboot Restore Rx (Freemium), Macrium Reflect (Freemium) and Restic (Free, Open Source). The best alternative is Rollback Rx, which is free. This is great, but out-of-the-box Time Machine only backs up your data to an external physical drive or a local NAS system that supports the Time Machine protocols. There are more than 50 alternatives to Time Machine for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iPhone. For me, I just had to browse to the OneDrive folder on my Mac and save the disk image here. If you are a Mac user, then you probably know that macOS comes bundled with a critically acclaimed backup program called Time Machine.

You want to save the disk image within your cloud drive folder. The beauty with a virtual drive is, even if you specified the full 1 TB as allocated space for the virtual drive, the actual space being taken up will only be as large as the files contained within.