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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Apple introduced the APFS (Apple Filing System) file system protocol in macOS Sierra. It’s now the required format for macOS, but it took a while to transition from the former implementation of the ...