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#Need to backup my mac but dont have a external hard drive how to#
#Need to backup my mac but dont have a external hard drive mac os#

Connect the external hard drive to the Mac if you haven’t done so already, then create a new folder on the drive (or partition) to dedicate to the iTunes backups.

Quit iTunes if you haven’t done so already.

Technically you could do this with a network volume as well, but we’re focusing on a traditional external hard disk here.

#Need to backup my mac but dont have a external hard drive mac os#

This works the same with all versions of Mac OS X, all types of iOS devices with versions of iOS, and all versions of iTunes, since the location of the iOS backup files has stayed the same on the Mac.

#Need to backup my mac but dont have a external hard drive how to#

How to Backup iPhone & iPad to an External Hard Drive with Mac OS X If you haven’t done so already, be sure to set up Time Machine and complete a backup of the Mac before beginning.

I personally use the same hard drive for Time Machine and for file storage and created a subfolder on the file storage portion for iOS backups, but you can use a separate drive, a dedicated drive, a partition, or whatever works for you. Aside from that, you’ll need the usual to make a generic iPhone or iPad backup with iTunes, including a USB cable for the iOS device, and of course an external hard drive with enough free space available to maintain the backups. In order to successfully get iTunes backups of iOS devices to automatically backup to and store on an external drive, you’ll need some working knowledge of the command line and directory structures, since we’ll be using symbolic links to get this done.