If you have recently purchased or been gifted a new Apple MacBook laptop or Studio desktop computer, you might wonder how you can keep your important documents. media and data safe just in case the ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open the Settings app, tap your name at the top of the screen, then iCloud > iCloud Backup. Make sure that “Back Up This ...

Despite your best effort, accidents happen, losing a MacBook or seeing your Mac simply die for no reason. You can take the sting out of any mishap if you have a backup. Much like flossing, backing up ...

There’s another alternative, too: diversity of backups. If you have your main volume and a Time Machine backup, you don’t need a second Time Machine backup. Instead, consider using an online backup ...

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

If you use a Mac, you’ve likely seen the little Time Machine icon in your menu bar and ignored it until disaster struck. For years, I relied on external drives or my primary server for backups, but I ...

Decho Corp. today acknowledged that its popular Mozy online backup service is having problems saving backups sent to it by Apple Inc.’s Time Machine backup tool, which works with Apple’s Time Capsule ...

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 ...