If you use a Mac, you’ve likely seen the little Time Machine icon in your menu bar and ignored it until disaster struck. For years, I relied on external drives or my primary server for backups, but I ...

Have a few Macs in the house that used to back up to a Time Capsule until it died. Infrequent USB drive Time Machine backups since, and my wife's Mac Mini is now so stuffed it can't backup to the ...

Since its introduction in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple’s Time Machine has become one of the Mac’s most essential features, providing transparent, fully automatic, full-machine backup to an external ...

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In macOS Big Sur, you can finally use APFS-formatted volumes as Time Machine destinations. They aren’t backwards compatible with macOS Catalina or earlier versions of macOS, and they require erasing ...

Here's how to automatically or manually back up your data, and then restore it on your Mac using Apple's Time Machine feature. Lance is an experienced writer who tries to unravel the mysteries of ...

I love Time Machine. As the old saying has it, the only reliable backup is a fully automated one, and that’s what Apple’s Time Machine utility provides. But… it’s perhaps a little too automated for ...

How to Select the Best External Hard Drive for macOS Time Machine Backups Your email has been sent Time Machine lets Mac users easily backup their computer. In this tutorial, learn how to pick a drive ...

Automated Time Machine backups should be a “set it and forget it” strategy. Once enabled, macOS warns you only when something goes wrong. No alerts, and–almost always–the backups have continued apace.