When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Do you have a single Time Machine drive that you use to back up multiple Macs? Or a Time Machine ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Sometimes you may have files and folders that you don't want Time Machine to backup due to space ...

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, ...

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 ...

Periodically backing up your computer is always a good idea. You want to make sure your documents, photos, and files are protected in case of hardware failure, software glitches, or malware attacks.