This morning, the hard drive in my trusty 2007 iMac died. So, I went and picked up a nice cheap replacement (1 TB Hitachi, I think), and slapped it in thanks to the wonderful guys at iFixit. It booted ...

I have a macbook, an optibay kit and soon a Samsung 840 pro 128 Gb SSD. The plan is of course to ditch the optical drive and install the SSD and original hard drive in a DIY Fusion Drive. I'm not ...

Sometimes when our computers have been in use for many years it can help to clean house and start fresh. Restoring from a Time Machine backup via Migration Assistant doesn’t allow for picking and ...

You need to practice restoring your databases so when it becomes necessary in your live network, you’ll be prepared to do it right. It’s important to back up your databases, but it’s even more ...

Transferring data seamlessly from an old Mac or Windows PC to your new MacBook Air using Migration Assistant, Move to Mac, or Time Machine restore. Pixabay, josemdelaa Transferring data from an old ...

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 ...

Losing something you spent time working on, or photos that you can't replace, is devastating. You might think this is a problem of the past because of cloud storage services like Apple's own iCloud, ...

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 ...

One of the services packaged with OS X Server Leopard (there are so many) is Time Machine Server. If you’re running a network of Leopard notebooks and desktops, centralized Time Machine backups are ...

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 ...

Plus a simple tool that makes it better for laptops. Losing something you spent time working on, or photos that you can't replace, is devastating. You might think this is a problem of the past because ...