Learn more about transferring files and backup.
Click Download across from the item you need.If the items you need are not yet available, wait a few minutes. After you select all the items you need, click Continue with Restore on the right.A – means only certain items inside will be restored. Keep backups off-site Store your backups in a secure off-site location, such as a safe deposit box or a trusted friend or family member’s house. In Time Machine you can actually access it and go back in time at any time, it’s actually amazing. A checkmark means the entire contents of the folder will be restored. For BackBlaze log on to the website or the mobile app and see if your files are there.Check the boxes next to entire folders to restore (left column) or just the files you need (right column).Type in the search box or navigate through the folders on the drive until you find what you need.Choose a machine on the left side and a date/time when the desired version of the files/folders were still on the drive.Choose an option – usually download a zip file for free.Find the computer that contained the file and click Restore File.Enter the email address & password for the Backblaze account and click Sign In.Click Sign In to Restore on the right side.Place on the drive where they were before the loss.īackBlaze may not be your primary line of defense. You shouldn’t need Backblaze if the Time Machine backup is working - use Time Machine first since it does hourly backups, it’s easier and there’s no delay for downloads. This allows you to transfer files back to the same Helpful to use the computer that actually contained the files you need The most important thing is that you start backing up your computer today, no matter the method.You can restore files from Backblaze to any computer. But even if you don't have a Mac Plus to call your own, if you aren't yet incorporating backups into your daily life, you may want to read Erica Sadun's piece about why Time Machine holds a special place in her heart, or Steve Sande's Mac 101 on backup basics. While I do both online backups with Backblaze and local backups using Time Machine, Gray's Mac Plus server would look a lot better in my office than my boring Western Digital drive looks now.
Sure beats using a run-of-the-mill Mac mini as a server on style points alone! By using an Intel Atom motherboard and replacing the screen with a 10" digital picture frame, Gray has taken an important piece of Apple's history and made it into what could be the coolest 2.3 TB-capacity Time Machine server we've seen yet. Showing us that there is, in fact, a much more useful application for an old Mac Plus than a DJ using it as a helmet, Macenstein reader Dean Gray has turned his 1986 Mac Plus 1 MB into a Time Machine Server.
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