My iphone is backing up to icloud but not my macbook air nor my iMac. Any ideas?

I use Time Machine with an external HD. That seems to do what I need. Others also recommend an second EHD with a bootable clone of your boot drive and use a 3rd party app like Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper, Synk Pro, etc. to keep the clone up to date.
In addition to Time Machine I have a hard drive that I keep key files backed up with Synk Pro which does incremental backups, i.e. copying only those new or modified files. For other candidates for the cloning and backup apps to go MacUpdate.com and search for "file backup" and "clone".

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when I know fo sure that the user & pass have been entered correctly & are being recognized by my iPhone 4 & my iPad2...
It never been a problem but for the last couple of days...
Has anyone have a clue of what's going on & how to fix it please...
Thanks
P-Y

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So far, three+ hours spent on this issue.
If anyone with this problem actually gets it fixed, I'd appreciated knowing before downlading Leopard & purchasing Lion....

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OS X Mail: Troubleshooting sending and receiving email messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3276
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Hello nothingissecret
Check out the article below for troubleshooting steps to resolve the issue. One would be to try a different cable or adapter to test with the television.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1573
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