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.

It would be hard to argue that Leopard’s Time Machine is not useful, or at least comforting to have around. The built-in backup feature offers a simple, set-it-and-forget-it safety net for the day you ...

My backup strategy with my main Mac has been to use a networked Time Machine backup and also a Time Machine backup to an external HDD that I connect perhaps a couple of times per month. So far, that ...

Reader Geof points out that you can get some idea of what Time Machine is up to - when it is performing backups, and how large each backup is - simply by looking at the Console. Open the Console (in ...

Knowing how to restore Mac files from a Time Machine backup is very important, offering a solution when a file is missing or a document has been changed in an unexpected way. Recovering files with ...

It may be that your Time Machine backups are being slowed down by Finder. It appears that for some users, Time Machine backups slow to unbearable speeds while attempting to back up. Here is a quick ...

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.

My current Time Machine drive is a 4TB HDD I've been using for...probably like a decade at this point. It's been very reliable. But being an HDD, it has the obvious downsides of noise and slowness.

Rebit backup works like a Windows version of Mac OS Time Machine, but with business-oriented features like NAS support Rebit is in the business of providing what InfoWorld’s Martin Heller calls ...

In our most recent Do You Use It? poll, we asked which backup methods you could use to recover your data and get back to work. Versioned backups—made with Time ...

Apple's built-in Time Machine backup solution for macOS appears to be causing problems for some Mac users running the latest versions of Monterey and Big Sur, based on a steady trickle of reports on ...

Apple's Time Machine is an essential file backup tool for macOS, but it too has a backup that works off your Mac's primary drive. Here's how Time Machine's local snapshots work, and how to get rid of ...