Backing up your Mac might not always be a priority – although it should be – and it's easier than you think with Time Machine and iCloud.

You can restore your Mac using Time Machine and an external hard drive. Time Machine automatically creates backups of your Mac every hour.

Once you're done setting up the snapshot schedule, I also recommend installing Tailscale (or better yet, Headscale, WireGuard ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...