We’ve all been there—that sinking feeling when a file vanishes, a system crashes, or a project you’ve poured hours into suddenly disappears. Whether it’s a hardware failure, accidental deletion, or an ...

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 ...

Creating regular backups of your essential files goes a long way in ensuring your devices remain in tip-top form, regardless of whether you’re a casual user or a hardcore tinkering veteran with ...

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 ...

Time Machine is a free and native built-in backup feature available on all Mac models that allows you to create incremental backups, restore your Mac, and browse files. Get started by connecting a ...

I recently bought a new external SSD to use for Time Machine backups. Most important to me is to have a backup of my Parallels VM, since I do most of the work for my day job in Windows, and I’d be out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...