On Time Machine Backups Over Network
If you own a desktop Mac, you probably use an external drive for Time Machine. If you use a portable Mac, most likely not, and according to the Tidbits article, youβre not alone. The portability of the Mac is hindered by having an external drive hooked permanently. I, personally, have a different strategy: I use a Synology NAS DS720+ with Time Machine enabled to do my backups over the wireless network. It works perfectly, but I donβt do a full backup of my MacBook Air. Files that are part of iCloud Drive are excluded (read more here, youβll find out why itβs a good idea). In fact, most of the files are excluded, except a few critical folders, outside the scope of any cloud syncing services. Applications arenβt backed up either (easy to recover in case of lost). Backups are small but are just what I need to protect my work.