How To Have External Backups for Specific Folders?

Question

I&#8217;m trying to get organised. (Yeah, right!) Will be making way more photos and videos in the future, but have loads already. I have dedicated two external hard drives to photos and videos, one to each. And two internal folders, photos and videos. What I would like to do, is have automatic backup, or instant copying, of anything that gets put in (say) the photos folder to also go to the external photos drive. Like a constant cloning or copying of just that folder. And the same with the videos folder and drive. I suspect that this is not possible, but would be VERY useful. Reasons why&#8230;. Data security in the case of a crash of any sort. (Yep I know about, and use, TimeMachine) But also because it would be an organised backup to separate drives, so I would know where to look. With over 3000 photos and many GBs of videos, and other external backup drives that are past backups, sort of archives, I want to be able, in effect, to have current backups for specific folders. &#8212;&#8211; Ron Skingley

Accepted Answer

Something I have done is use two external hard drives for my Time Machine.  I’m not a frequent user of my MacBook.  So, when I do use it, I attach one hard drive followed by the other. My intention is to ensure that if one of the external hard drives failed, I still have a Time Machine to use. Also, less frequently I do a Carbon Copy Clone backup also using two external drives.

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