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title: "How to restore your Mac from a backup"  
description: "How to restore your Mac from a backup"  
author: "Gray  park"  
published: 2018-10-08  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50334/how-to-restore-your-mac-from-a-backup  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["mac troubleshooting"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How to restore your Mac from a backup

How to [restore](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/239/how-to-back-up-and-restore-a-mysql-database) your [Mac](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12464/what-is-mac-o-s) from a [backup](https://www.mindstick.com/news/4172/google-photos-gets-undo-device-backup-feature-here-s-nbsp-how-nbsp-to-nbsp-use-nbsp-it)\
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## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

**Time Machine backups may be used to recover your Mac. so follow these steps**

1. **[Restart](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50315/how-to-force-your-iphone-to-restart) your computer.**
2. Hold down the Command and **R keys** at the same time while the startup disc is booting up.
3. From the list of choices**, choose Restore** from Time Machine Backup.
4. Continue by pressing the **Enter key.**
5. On the **Restore Your System** Page,
6. **[Read more](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50308/how-to-restart-or-reboot-your-iphone)**


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