![]() ![]() Now comes the trickier stuff, that of creating a symbolic link (symlink). RENAME the original “Backup” folder on your Mac to “Backup_old”.You should now have a “Backup” folder on your external hard drive with copies of your individual backups.Note: don’t delete the old backup file yet!.Let the backup file copy from your Mac to your external hard drive.Your Mac may prompt you to enter your administrator password to authenticate the move.Drag the current iOS Backup folder from your Mac’s hard drive to the connected USB hard drive.Find the iOS Backup folder (the one that holds the individual backups) in the previous step and have that as another open Finder window.Open your external hard drive in the Finder (better to have as a second Finder window). ![]() Name your backup hard drive something like “iOSbackup” or if you want to use a space, use an underscore character like “iOS_backup” to keep things simple.Īssuming that your external hard drive is already connected to your Mac, you are ready to go copy the backup file from your Mac to the external hard drive. I probably wouldn’t use multiple words and definitely not use spaces or punctuation. I would keep your external hard drive naming extremely simple. The next step is probably even easier than the previous one, that of moving the backup to the external drive. This “Backup” folder is the backup folder that you are going to move to the external or other hard drive. This will open up the iOS backup which typically is in the ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup folder.
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