Thank you for this! & making it easy for me to understand. Of course, if you do power-off an external drive, it will need to be turned on again for anything to happen. The drive remains connected to the Mac and it can remain powered-on if so desired. ![]() SuperDuper can mount and unmount the entire drive or an individual partition (if you have divided the drive into partitions). Nothing physical needs to be done with the drive. ![]() I suggested that a drive or partition should be unmounted between uses. So forget undock and eject for this discussion. Let's try to nail-down the correct terminology because it will make this much easier. ![]() One thing if I may ask & forgive me for the silly question aha but you mention it best practice to undock the external drive when not in use & that SuperDuper! Can do this automatically, I take it you mean you just need to essentially eject the drive after use and not physically remove the cable from the iMac every time? And actually if this is the case how do you re dock the drive to the Mac without physically taking out and re attaching the cable? Thank you for this, quite a few people have mentioned the SuperDuper! Software, not just for performing the backups but to set up automatic copying of files. If you need to leave an external drive mounted to allow the Mac access to it, you can use partitions or another external drive for backups. Some backup software such as SuperDuper! can automatically find and mount a drive/volume, perform a backup and then unmount it via its scheduling feature. Only mount them when a backup is in progress and then immediately unmount them when the backup is complete. The simplest thing to do to prevent connected backups from being encrypted in a ransomware attack is to leave them unmounted when not in use. Data that has been encrypted by ransomware can be replaced by the (hopefully) up-to-date backup data. Having a viable data backup is the best way to defend against malware since anti-malware software should not be considered 100% effective. If you are using the drives to backup data they are vulnerable to ransomware which can be designed to infect both internal and external drives. ![]() There is one major caveat regarding leaving external drives connected and mounted 24/7.
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