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

How to Use Time Machine to Backup Any Mac Time Machine is an app that comes with every Mac. It’s designed to help you back up everything on your Mac. It literally mirrors your Mac’s internal hard ...

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 ...

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.

Apple’s Time Capsule base station put a Wi-Fi access point, a network router, and a backup drive that tied into Time Machine all in a single box. That was its downfall, too: if the drive failed or ...

Apple's Time Capsule was discontinued long ago, but you can still get them to do your Time Machine backups on a modern network. Here's how. In 2008 Apple introduced a product called Time Capsule, ...

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 ...

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, ...

If you’re getting a new Mac, make sure you’ve backed up and cleaned out the old one first. If you’re getting a new Mac, make sure you’ve backed up and cleaned out the old one first. As slick and ...