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You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Hi all,

New to this forum and new to Mac Mini (although not new to Apple I've had iPhone and Apple Watch for a number of years).

I have finally bit the bullet and purchased myself a new Mac mini. My windows laptop is on its last legs and have wanted to move over to Mac for a few years now.

I am not a "power" user and use my computer mainly to browse the internet, occasionally stream music and YouTube etc and to store and organise around 200gb of family photos and videos (which I intend to move and store on the Mac itself) and I occasionally want to do a bit of very light photo editing.

I intend to use iCloud to allow me and my partner to view our photos on our phones and have them downloaded/available on the Mac and then to back up the Mac in some way.

Is Time Machine the best way to do this along with an external harddrive or is there another better way?

I have read some older articles that Time Machine isn't reliable.

Ultimately I want to ensure that I have a back up of my photos and videos in case the worst should happen.

At the moment i periodically go into my windows laptop and copy all my files manually onto an external hard drive and keep that hard drive at another location (with the files also being backed up to OneDrive) but for various reasons want to move away from OneDrive and also make the process as automated as possible.

Thoughts and ideas appreciated

Thank you