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

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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

Securing your digital memories, work files, or important documents has never been more essential in today’s rapidly evolving digital age. Regularly backing up your Mac using Apple’s Time Machine can ...

Regularly backing up your Mac with Time Machine can prevent data loss and allow you to restore earlier versions of files. To get started, connect a drive that you want to use (and don't mind being ...

Apple lets you use Time Machine to create a backup from your Mac of all the data files, apps, and other stuff that’s not part of the macOS system installation. (Before macOS 11 Big Sur, you could back ...

My spouse updated her MBP from 10.6.2 to 10.6.3 this morning, forgetting to check whether there are known issues with the update. Turns Adobe CS3 won't work after the update. This is a known issue, ...

The cool thing is that you can share an external disk over a network and assign that one as a Time Machine disk for other computers as well. I use the external hard drive that is hooked up to my Mini ...