Automatically start a Time Machine backup when you plug in the drive and dismount the drive when the backup is complete.

Time Machine is Apple's backup system that automatically saves your Mac's files. Here's how to use the macOS file protection feature. Time Machine is an app that Apple ships with macOS and that helps ...

Regularly backing up your Mac with Time Machine can prevent data loss and allow you to restore earlier versions of files. To ...

Securing your digital memories, work files, or important documents has never been more essential in today’s rapidly evolving digital age. Regularly backing up your Mac using Apple’s Time Machine can ...

Apple's Time Capsule was discontinued long ago, but you can still get them to do your Time Machine backups on a modern network. Here's how. In 2008 Apple introduced a product called Time Capsule, ...

Time Machine offers a powerful continuous archiving tool for files on your Mac. By design, Apple keeps it simple: it lets you select just a single set of volumes (and excluded volumes, folders, and ...

Apple lets you use Time Machine to create a backup from your Mac of all the data files, apps, and other stuff that’s not part of the macOS system installation. (Before macOS 11 Big Sur, you could back ...

Backup Status is a simple app that puts a Time Machine widget on your Mac desktop (or stows it away in your Notification Center). If you don’t want the Time Machine icon cluttering up your menu bar, ...

Another option for transferring data from one Mac to another is to use Time Machine. This is especially handy if your old Mac isn’t available, but you still have a recent backup. To take this route, ...

We’ve all been there—that sinking feeling when a file vanishes, a system crashes, or a project you’ve poured hours into suddenly disappears. Whether it’s a hardware failure, accidental deletion, or an ...

One of the most talked about features in Apple Computer Inc.’s upcoming operating system, Mac OS X 10.5, also known as Leopard, is the built-in backup tool called Time Machine. For Mac users, Time ...