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 ...

Time Machine is Apple's native utility for backing up data on macOS onto an external drive. The app comes preinstalled on Macs, making it easy to set up for regular backups. Backing up with Time ...

Backing up your Mac is an essential step to safeguard your data against unexpected events such as hardware failures, accidental deletions, or software issues. Apple’s Time Machine, a built-in feature ...

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 ...

We’ve all been there—that sinking feeling when a file vanishes, a system crashes, or a project you’ve poured hours into suddenly disappears. Whether it’s a hardware failure, accidental deletion, or an ...

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 ...

Apple introduced the APFS (Apple Filing System) file system protocol in macOS Sierra. It’s now the required format for macOS, but it took a while to transition from the former implementation of the ...

The ongoing fuss surrounding the bug in Apple’s asr tool that is breaking bootable backups made with Carbon Copy Cloner, ChronoSync, and SuperDuper caused me to revisit my backup recommendations (see ...

OS X Leopard’s Time Machine works on Airport Extreme routers as of the last firmware update, but TidBITS found out directly from Apple that it’s an “unsupported feature.” What does this mean to you, ...

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.

A couple of weeks ago, while lamenting Microsoft’s poorly articulated Previous Versions story, I alluded to an earlier post in which I detailed my attempts to reproduce Mac OS X’s Time Machine feature ...