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 ...

OS 26.4 appears to break Time Machine backups over NAS, leaving users unable to complete backups. A workaround exists, but it ...

Losing something you spent time working on, or photos that you can't replace, is devastating. You might think this is a problem of the past because of cloud storage services like Apple's own iCloud, ...

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.

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 ...

In our most recent Do You Use It? poll, we asked which backup methods you could use to recover your data and get back to work. Versioned backups—made with Time ...

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 ...

Backing up your Mac is an essential practice to protect your data from potential risks such as hardware failures, accidental deletions, or software issues. With macOS’s built-in Time Machine feature ...