Following on from our earlier article on how to set up and manage your Apple Time Machine backups, capable of making sure that if you are MacBook or desktop Apple computer is lost, stolen or fails you ...

If you have recently purchased or been gifted a new Apple MacBook laptop or Studio desktop computer, you might wonder how you can keep your important documents. media and data safe just in case the ...

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 ...

So I have an HP Mediasmart home server and it's been a wonderful ride. It lets me set up time machine backups for all the macs in the house (3 of them) despite being an HP product running a Microsoft ...

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 ...

I recently bought a new external SSD to use for Time Machine backups. Most important to me is to have a backup of my Parallels VM, since I do most of the work for my day job in Windows, and I’d be out ...

There’s another alternative, too: diversity of backups. If you have your main volume and a Time Machine backup, you don’t need a second Time Machine backup. Instead, consider using an online backup ...

I store most of my documents in the cloud, but not everything is stored there. So, when I wanted to factory reset my MacBook, I turned to my homelab for backing up my Apple computer. Here’s how I did ...

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.