Over the break, I upgraded my 2020 27-inch iMac to macOS 14 Sonoma, which I’ve been running on my M1 MacBook Air for months. The process was simple and easy, and everything continued to work with no ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

How to Use Time Machine to Backup Any Mac Time Machine is an app that comes with every Mac. It’s designed to help you back up everything on your Mac. It literally mirrors your Mac’s internal hard ...

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 ...

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, ...

Backing up your Mac is an essential step to safeguard your data against unexpected events such as hardware failures, accidental deletions, or software issues. Apple’s Time Machine, a built-in feature ...

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 ...