How to Schedule an Automatic File Backup in a Mac
Automator is a built-in application developed by Apple for OS X that implements drag-and-drop creation of workflows for automating repetitive tasks into batches for quicker alteration, thus saving time, and effort for people to manually...
Steps
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Picture 1 of How to Schedule an Automatic File Backup in a Mac Launch the Automator from your Applications Folder. ① Click iCal Alarm on the pop-up menu, and ② choose. -
Picture 2 of How to Schedule an Automatic File Backup in a Mac ① Type in 'Get Specified Finder Items', and hit the Return key twice. -
Picture 3 of How to Schedule an Automatic File Backup in a Mac ② Click on the Add button, and select your files or folders that you want to have backed up. Then, click Add (Repeat this process to add additional files or folders.) -
Picture 4 of How to Schedule an Automatic File Backup in a Mac Type in 'Copy Finder Items', and hit the Return key twice (note that we are copying not moving these files.) -
Picture 5 of How to Schedule an Automatic File Backup in a Mac ① Click on the pulldown next to To:, and ② choose Other. Then, select the destination folder to tell Automator where to put the files when the files are copied. -
Picture 6 of How to Schedule an Automatic File Backup in a Mac Check ③ Replacing existing files so that you will not have to click Replace every time the script runs. -
Picture 7 of How to Schedule an Automatic File Backup in a Mac Click Run button ▶ on upper-right of the app window to test out your Automator script. See green check next to each step if your test run is successful. Go back through the steps to see where you might have made a mistake otherwise. -
Picture 8 of How to Schedule an Automatic File Backup in a Mac Hit Cmd+S on keyboard to schedule a time that you want to back up. -
Picture 9 of How to Schedule an Automatic File Backup in a Mac ① Name your script (note this name is the title that appear on your iCal Alarm), and ② click Save. -
Picture 10 of How to Schedule an Automatic File Backup in a Mac iCal will pop up. Find the name you created, and double click it to Edit. -
Picture 11 of How to Schedule an Automatic File Backup in a Mac Change the default time to whenever you want the back-up to start. Click on the pulldown next to repeat if you want the back-up to run periodically, like every day, every week, or others.
Update 04 March 2020
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