

#GOOGLE PHOTOS BACKUP FOR MAC FULL#
Good news: If you already use a service to back up your hard drive and you've already synced your full iCloud Photo Library to your Mac, it's easy to back it all up there too. If you store your entire iCloud Photo Library on your Mac

After all, you can never have too many backups, in all honesty.
#GOOGLE PHOTOS BACKUP FOR MAC HOW TO#
How to make an online backup of your iCloud Photo LibraryĮven though your entire iCloud Photo Library is (as the name implies) stored online in iCloud, it's worth considering a second online backup as one of your redundancies. Connect an external drive to your Mac via USB, USB-C, or Thunderbolt.īack up portions of your iCloud Photo Library by showing: Click Export (Image credit: iMore).If you've turned on the Download Originals option for your Photos library but don't want to back it up automatically, you can always copy your Photos library to an external drive regularly. now's a good time to start! Back up your Photos library manually And if you don't currently use a backup service, well. No matter which method you prefer (though it's highly recommended to use both), your Photos library (and all images and video automatically downloaded from iCloud) will be backed up as well. If you've turned on the Download Originals option for your Photos library, you can back up your Photos library as part of your regular backup routine with Time Machine or even an online clone service like Carbon Copy or BackBlaze. (You can also export sections of your library if you don't want to back up the whole thing.) Back up your Photos library automatically There are two ways to back up your iCloud Photo Library to an external drive: backing up your Photos library automatically or manually. How to back up your iCloud Photo Library content to an external drive Depending on how big your iCloud Photo Library is, it may take a while - just be patient.

Your Mac will now download full-resolution copies of all your images to your Mac's hard drive, stored inside your Photos app library. Back up iCloud Photo Library to Mac HD by showing: Click iCloud, click Download Originals to this Mac (Image credit: iMore)
