Time Machine is Apple's backup system that automatically saves your Mac's files. Here's how to use the macOS file protection feature.

A Mac laptop can work perfectly well as a networked Time Machine destination, but if you take it somewhere else, put it to sleep, or unplug it from battery power, backups cannot occur.

The oldest backups are deleted when space is needed, but Time Machine always keeps the latest version. Some people don’t trust Time Machine because of bad experiences in the past, but it’s worth ...

OS X Leopard’s Time Machine works on Airport Extreme routers as of the last firmware update, but TidBITS found out directly from Apple that it’s an “unsupported feature.” What does this ...

Every single external SSD I have seen has reviews mentioning how it doesn't work for Time Machine, long-term. They are all designed for light use, like a thumb drive.

Mac 911 How to manage Time Machine backups between APFS and HFS+ drives Your HFS+ Time Machine volumes can give you a depth of recovery for older snapshots, but APFS is the way of the future.

What does a time machine look like? Your guess is as good as mine. Probably better. Whatever blurry images are filed in my mind under the category for “time machine” seem to be mostly of the ...