Here's how to automatically or manually back up your data, and then restore it on your Mac using Apple's Time Machine feature ...

So here's the backstory - I have a 2005 PowerBook G4 (my computer) and a 2009 white MacBook (my wife's). The PowerBook is really starting to show its age - it's sluggish, has almost no free space left ...

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.

Backing up your Mac is not just something you do when testing betas like macOS Tahoe; it is an everyday essential if you want to avoid risking losing irreplaceable work. Maybe you think you don't need ...

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 ...

The ongoing fuss surrounding the bug in Apple’s asr tool that is breaking bootable backups made with Carbon Copy Cloner, ChronoSync, and SuperDuper caused me to revisit my backup recommendations (see ...

It's not just Intel code — after a period of undeath, Time Capsule's time is coming, with Apple cutting off support for Time Machine backups using the hardware in macOS 27. Time Capsules, Apple's long ...

Mac users relying on Time Machine went through a rough transition a few years ago when Apple migrated away from its long-used HFS+ format for encoding hard drives and SSDs to the modern, more capable, ...