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

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 ...

This advanced tip allows a Time Machine backup to be made and transferred to an alternative storage location, all while still being available as a backup disk. Joe is a seasoned Mac veteran with years ...

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.

It may be that your Time Machine backups are being slowed down by Finder. It appears that for some users, Time Machine backups slow to unbearable speeds while attempting to back up. Here is a quick ...

Knowing how to restore Mac files from a Time Machine backup is very important, offering a solution when a file is missing or a document has been changed in an unexpected way. Recovering files with ...

Following on from our earlier article on how to set up and manage your Apple Time Machine backups, capable of making sure that if you are MacBook or desktop Apple computer is lost, stolen or fails you ...

Automated Time Machine backups should be a “set it and forget it” strategy. Once enabled, macOS warns you only when something goes wrong. No alerts, and–almost always–the backups have continued apace.

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 ...

Apple's built-in Time Machine backup solution for macOS appears to be causing problems for some Mac users running the latest versions of Monterey and Big Sur, based on a steady trickle of reports on ...

Rebit backup works like a Windows version of Mac OS Time Machine, but with business-oriented features like NAS support Rebit is in the business of providing what InfoWorld’s Martin Heller calls ...

An unknown number of macOS Monterey users are reporting that Apple's Time Machine is failing on its initial backup of a drive and it's not clear why. According to posts on Reddit, it is specifically ...