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 ...

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 ...

So a user has a new 10.7 MBA with a 256GB SSD, of which 9GB are used. There is an external USB drive (natch) 500GB large, and we can't get more than 5 days backups before it says it needs to clear out ...

Backups are a crucial aspect of data management, ensuring that your files and system configurations are safe from loss. For Linux users, several alternatives to Apple's Time Machine offer robust ...