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I need to get an external hard drive to back up the home iMac (2011 model, running OSX10.7.5). I know very little about Macs (wife's choice) but will probably use time machine to do it.
We also have a fairly extensive lightroom catalogue that I have been manually backing up but it is getting tedious.
Hopefully in the near future we will upgrade to Sierra OS so would like to use the back up to move all files over, including the lightroom files and catalogue.
Is it as simple as getting time machine up and running, buy an external hardrive, and off we go? I've no idea really of how back ups work so don't know how big the drive needs to be compared to the files being backed up on a weekly basis.
So...... assuming that all the above is easy to achieve, can anybody recommend a decent external hard drive of sufficient capacity to deal with backups of ~700Gb? It doesn't need to be portable, pretty or quiet as it really is just a backup.
Much obliged,
S