Learn how to back up your Mac for free with Time Machine. Step-by-step guide to protect your data from loss or hardware failure.

Time Machine, the built-in backup tool in macOS, provides a straightforward and reliable way to protect your valuable data. Whether you’re safeguarding critical work files, cherished family photos, or ...

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 ...

Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each year to help you make better buying decisions and get more from technology. Apple introduced automatic backups with Mac OS X 10.5 ...

Get simple desktop widgets for monitoring Time Machine. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Backup Status is a simple app that puts a Time Machine widget on your Mac desktop (or stows it away in your ...

Can you tell Time machine to use an image on the local hard disk for backup? What about on external hard disks?<BR><BR>I am interested in encryption and in limiting the size of the Time machine ...

Apple’s Time Capsule base station put a Wi-Fi access point, a network router, and a backup drive that tied into Time Machine all in a single box. That was its downfall, too: if the drive failed or ...

Time Machine remains an outstanding solution for local backups on your Mac, but backups require an external drive, no cloud backups here. We all understand the importance of backing up a Mac, despite ...

An iCloud Capsule could work much like a Time Capsule. After news broke yesterday that Apple had, for the second time in two years, lost an iPhone prototype at a San Francisco bar, the general ...