This advanced tip allows a Time Machine backup to be made and transferred to an alternative storage location, all while still being available as a backup disk. Joe is a seasoned Mac veteran with years ...

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

Yesterday, we wrote about size considerations for Time Machine drives, and while that is one of the most discussed topics for new Time Machine users, many people also debate on the security and ...

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 ...

You can trigger manual backups or set them to run automatically. Backups can be stored on USB or Thunderbolt external drives, another Mac serving as a Time Machine destination, or a network-attached ...

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 ...

How to Select the Best External Hard Drive for macOS Time Machine Backups Your email has been sent Time Machine lets Mac users easily backup their computer. In this tutorial, learn how to pick a drive ...

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 recently put out a call for topics you‘d like to learn more about and one of the most popular suggestions was how to verify a Time Machine backup. After all, you‘ve gone to all the trouble to ...

Since its introduction in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple’s Time Machine has become one of the Mac’s most essential features, providing transparent, fully automatic, full-machine backup to an external ...