How to Create Back-Up of iCloud Photo Library

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How to Create Back-Up of iCloud Photo Library

• iCloud is among the best alternatives you can
  avail when it comes to securing your videos and
  images. A backup provides the user with
  additional security to store their sensitive
  data.
• This can take place in a local drive, any
  external drive, any other online option to backup
  or within both of them.
• To perform the backup, you can follow the given
  methods
• Online backup of users iCloud Photo Library
• To Local Mac Hard drive
• To any other external source
• Online backup of iCloud library
• It is safe to say that the users data in iCloud
  is secure however, having an extra backup never
  harms anyone.

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• When Data Is Not Stored in Icloud Photo
  Library on Your Mac
• In case the user has not saved the data locally,
  then it can get trickier. Here users can export
  a portion of the library to any external drive
  and then sync their data on that drive to
  preferred online backup service. This process is
  more hectic and needs a bit more work, so if you
  dont want to do any extra work just save the
  data on a local device.
•      2.  Using Local Mac Hard drive
• When the user has to save data in local
  drive, these steps should be followed
• Open Photos on the Mac.
• Select Photos, from the App menu in the top left
  corner.
• Click on Preferences.
• Select the iCloud Tab.
• Select Download Originals to this Mac.
• In this way, the user can download all the data
  to their Macs Hard-drive in full-resolution.
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•  3.  To Any Other External Source
• Here the user has 2 options to do it
• Automatically
• Manually
• Back up Your Photo and Videos Library
  Automatically
• For this, the user has to turn on the Download
  Originals Option on their Photo Library. This
  way, the backup will be done routinely. It will
  make no effect on the backup that the user is
  using the backup services right now or not.
• Backup the Photos and Video library Manually
• When you turn on the Download Originals option
  for your Photo Library, but yet you dont want it
  to happen regularly, then you have the option to
  do it on time.
• Connect the external drive to the Mac.
• You have to open Finder on the Mac
• Select the Picture in Sidebar on the left corner.
• Now Drag the Photos Library to the drive.
• Now all you have to do is wait until the copy is
  done.
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