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How to backup and sync hard drives on Mac
Hey everyone in this video, I'm going to show you how you could take two drives and back them up and sync them together. So you'll never have to worry about losing another drive. So if one of these drives goes down, you'll have the exact duplicate and the other drive and all the files will be sunk and I have this app that does this automatically. So typically you would take one file from here, put it here, and by the time you get hundreds of files or even dozens of files, it becomes really hard to know what's on what drive. This way you set it in the background, they always sync up. They always back up this drive to this drive or vice versa, or you could back up directionally and you'll never have to worry again and you could set a schedule. So let's say you run it at midnight every single day. You'll never lose another file this way. Now it doesn't matter if you have these bigger external drives or these portable drives. I usually use one external drive one portable drive. And the same size drives and backed them up to each other.
So if one drive goes down, in fact, I've had a drive go down and I had the backup in the other ones. Now, if it's your first time here, I make easy to follow tech tutorials five times a week. So please consider subscribing. Now let's jump into the computer so I could show you the entire setup process.
So I have four different hard drives mounted here. So this one is a five terabyte drive and this one is also a five terabyte drive, but it's a portable version and this is going to be my backup, same thing here. When I have a four terabyte drive in this case mounted, I want to make sure I have another four terabyte drive.
As a backup again, this is my backup. My primary in this case is portable. So I always buy these two different hard drives to make sure they're sync together. So if one hard drive failed, the other one would have all the exact same information. Now, what you don't want to do is you don't want to take them from one drive and drop it into the other drive because when the day drive gets really packed, this is going to be really hard to sync between the two drives manually.
It will take you a really long time. So I've been using software for 10 years now to do this for me in the background, set up auto schedules for backups, and I never have to worry about it. It's called Kronos sync for Mac and it's 50 bucks, but it's honestly one of the best $50 I've ever spent because I've never had to worry about a drive going bad.
In fact, when a drive went bad on me, all I had to do is go to the backup drive. I had all the information, buy a new drive and do the process over again. And a drive's gone bad on me a couple of times. So that really saved me from worrying about if I missed a file, this takes care of everything. So this is a new computer.
So let me go ahead and show you the process of getting this app up and running, and I'll show you a brief overview of how to use it. So I'll just go to download it here on this website. I'll have a link in the description to this place. So there's the express version, which is a bit cheaper, but this one has been sitting on my computer for a long time.
So, let me go ahead and add it to my cart. So it just downloaded. I'm going to go ahead and install it.
Okay. The install process is done. I'm just going to go ahead and move it to the trash. And now I could look up Kronos sink and I could launch it. And it's going to let you do a trial mode. So if you want to just try it and do a demo mode, you can, or in this case, I've already purchased this before. So I'm going to go ahead and register.
Okay. My registration is complete. I'm going to press okay here. And let me just go ahead and minimize this. So this is what the application looks like, and he also adds it up here for you. So you could have quick access to it. So you could just come up here and press Kronos sync. You could schedule it's all right up here, but this is what the app looks like.
And he has a setup assistant. So you can follow the setup assistant. If this is your first time using it, it makes it a little, a little bit easier, but as I said, I'll be using it for a really long time. This is how you back up one drive to another drive using Kronos sinker. All you gotta do is press create a new synchronized task.
This is the icon I'm going to press that and I'm going to name it, whatever my project name is, and I'm going to press okay. So here, I want to take one drive and then sync it to another drive. So I want to choose the first dry first. I'm going to go ahead and press choose here. If you go in here, you're going to press choose.
Let me go ahead and do that. Now. I'm going to choose my first drive. This is my primary drive. I'm going to press select. And now that drive is here. Now I'm going to choose another drive again. I make sure it's the same file size drive. You don't have to, you could do a five terabyte to a three terabyte, but this is much easier and never run out of space.
They'll both sync equally. I'll choose the second drive, press select. Now the two drives are here. Now, this is where you got to decide how you want to bank it up. You could back it up left to right. Right to left or by directional. I like to do by directional. That way I know what's on here is also on here and vice versa.
So no matter where I work on these drives, they'll both have the same file you could synchronize deletion or archive replaced files. I usually don't do this. So this is basically as simple as it gets, as far as setting up a schedule. Well, what you want to do next is you want to synchronize, or you could do test sync just to make sure.
So trial sync here, but let me go ahead and synchronize in this case again, I'm used to this for a while, so just to make you comfortable, you could do trial sync. Go ahead and press that. And he starts backing up automatically and it'll give you messages. So if there is a new file here and you want to move it to here, you could decide which one or you could always handle conflicts by either skipping them or using the newer file, in this case, I want to use the newer file.
So it's going to say that to me. And I'm going to say continue. And now the backup process is starting and it's actually moving files. Just like you see here one at a time now, depending on the size of your driving and how much you're trying to transfer. This might take a better time. So I'm going to let this finish and I'll come back to show you one more thing to set up and another transfer between two drives.
Once the two drives sync, you'll get a pop-up message like this. If you get any errors, you'll get a view error log here. I'm going to press okay. So once you do that, you will see here on there, your recent, that this is your recent schedule. So you could come up here and open at any time to come back to this and synchronize it.
Or you could schedule this, you could add this to a schedule here and tell it when you want this to happen. So if you want weekly on Mondays at 8:00 AM, or maybe you want to do this at midnight, when you're not working. To actually do the sinking for you. You could set that up through the sync scheduling and I'll show you if you want it to add another drive to this list.
So if I wanted to take this drive and this drive, let's go ahead and do another schedule here. Let me go ahead and close this up here. And this time I'll do an S F I'll press. Okay. That's the name of my drive? And I'll choose again. The Lyft drive and on the right, I'll choose my backup drive. And now I could again do a synchronized by direction just to make sure everything is transferred between the drives. And again, I could do a trial. I could do a synchronize or I could add it to my schedule. So this time I still want to do a synchronize. And he gave me a warning because one of my volumes is almost full it's 99.8%.
So usually I don't try to do this one. The hard drive is full, but it's not completely full. So it's kind of transfer everything from this drive to that drive. But if it runs out of space, it's going to give me the warning to delete something or move something out of that drive. So that's how I sync up all my hard drives on my Mac using Kronos sync.
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