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

Time Machine is a free and native built-in backup feature available on all Mac models that allows you to create incremental backups, restore your Mac, and browse files. Get started by connecting a ...

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple introduced the APFS (Apple Filing System) file system protocol in macOS Sierra. It’s now the required format for macOS, but it took a while to transition from the former implementation of the ...

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