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.

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 ...

Time Machine, the built-in backup tool in macOS, provides a straightforward and reliable way to protect your valuable data. Whether you’re safeguarding critical work files, cherished family photos, or ...

I would like Time Machine to manage two separate backups for me: the first, an external HD to backup my entire system; and the second, an SD card for essential files and projects. The SD card, ...

For the past decade, my Apple Time Capsule has faithfully backed up my Mac. I’ve been through several upgrades over the past decade—my current machine is an M3 Max MacBook Pro—and I’ve never had an ...

My backup strategy with my main Mac has been to use a networked Time Machine backup and also a Time Machine backup to an external HDD that I connect perhaps a couple of times per month. So far, that ...

One of the services packaged with OS X Server Leopard (there are so many) is Time Machine Server. If you’re running a network of Leopard notebooks and desktops, centralized Time Machine backups are ...

It's not just Intel code — after a period of undeath, Time Capsule's time is coming, with Apple cutting off support for Time Machine backups using the hardware in macOS 27. Time Capsules, Apple's long ...

An iCloud Capsule could work much like a Time Capsule. After news broke yesterday that Apple had, for the second time in two years, lost an iPhone prototype at a San Francisco bar, the general ...

Macworld reports that a macOS Tahoe 26.2 update caused a decade-old Apple Time Capsule to unexpectedly run out of space and reject passwords. Attempting to erase and reinitialize the Time Capsule ...