Periodically backing up your computer is always a good idea. You want to make sure your documents, photos, and files are protected in case of hardware failure, software glitches, or malware attacks.

I'm trying to create a TM backup to restore from. Even though it is a completely new drive and TM is set to defaults, it is only backing up 1/2 the data. The drive is 50GB full. TM is backing up only ...

Take an Airport Extreme 802.11n base station, add a 3.5-inch internal drive and modify the device’s firmware to permit the built-in LAN to share a drive as a volume (a device) rather than a folder ...

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 ...

MSP360 Backup steps far beyond what Apple’s Time Machine and some of its competitors offer, providing strong performance, deep customization, scripting support, 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 ...

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.