Backup Best Practices: How to Make Fast Clone Backups on a Mac

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Backup Best Practices: How to Make Fast Clone Backups on a Mac

2024-02-15

Clone backups are nominally identical copies (“clones”) of your volume(s), updated incrementally meaning only the stuff that changes. 

A clone backup is extremely fast. Only the first backup might take a while since everything has to be copied the first time. But after that first backup, the software is incredibly efficient at only copying the changes, making short work of bringing things up to date.

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Backup Best Practices: How to Make Fast Clone Backups on a Mac