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Your MacBook Pro will create local Time Machine snapshots when it cannot connect to your Time Capsule. When you do re-establish the connection, it will continue to make backups to the TC.
About Time Machine local snapshots - Apple Support
However, if the data on your notebook is critical to you, I would suggest that you also create a clone copy of it system drive and keep this clone updated periodically. Two excellent apps for this are: Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! Both will require an external drive to make the backups to, but if you use a portable drive, like a WD My Passport, you can easily take this drive with you when you're away from home.
Jun 04, 2020 Check Back Up Automatically in the left pane of the dialog box if you want your Mac to back up at regular intervals. Check Show Time Machine in menu bar to create a shortcut in the menu bar to Time Machine preferences and backup status. Best automated cloud computing backups. Unfortunately, relying on one backup is not the best backup plan. Especially if you lose your computer in a house fire, which happens to be the same location as your Synology DiskStation or Drobo. For that reason (and others), I use a couple of cloud computing services for backups.
I do not necessarily recommend cloud backups for two reasons:
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- They are extremely slow, and
- They will require enough storage space for your backups ... which, most likely, will come at an additional cost. Note that the iCloud Drive is not intended for backing up Macs, not even with Time Machine. However, they can be used for backing up iOS devices.
Backup Options For Mac
Your MacBook Pro will create local Time Machine snapshots when it cannot connect to your Time Capsule. When you do re-establish the connection, it will continue to make backups to the TC.
About Time Machine local snapshots - Apple Support
However, if the data on your notebook is critical to you, I would suggest that you also create a clone copy of it system drive and keep this clone updated periodically. Two excellent apps for this are: Carbon Copy Cloner and SuperDuper! Both will require an external drive to make the backups to, but if you use a portable drive, like a WD My Passport, you can easily take this drive with you when you're away from home.
Jun 04, 2020 Check Back Up Automatically in the left pane of the dialog box if you want your Mac to back up at regular intervals. Check Show Time Machine in menu bar to create a shortcut in the menu bar to Time Machine preferences and backup status. Best automated cloud computing backups. Unfortunately, relying on one backup is not the best backup plan. Especially if you lose your computer in a house fire, which happens to be the same location as your Synology DiskStation or Drobo. For that reason (and others), I use a couple of cloud computing services for backups.
I do not necessarily recommend cloud backups for two reasons:
Best Way To Backup Mac Computer To Flash Drive
- They are extremely slow, and
- They will require enough storage space for your backups ... which, most likely, will come at an additional cost. Note that the iCloud Drive is not intended for backing up Macs, not even with Time Machine. However, they can be used for backing up iOS devices.
Backup Options For Mac
If you really need to backup to the cloud, I would suggest that you only copy critical files when needed. You can also look at a cloud solution, like BackBlaze.
