Creating regular backups of your essential files goes a long way in ensuring your devices remain in tip-top form, regardless of whether you’re a casual user or a hardcore tinkering veteran with ...

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Securing your digital memories, work files, or important documents has never been more essential in today’s rapidly evolving digital age. Regularly backing up your Mac using Apple’s Time Machine can ...

So I've always tried to follow the 3-2-1 rule for personal backups (3 copies of the data, 2 backups, 1 backup off-site). My NAS crashed a couple of years ago, right around the same time as a house ...

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 ...

Time Machine seems to work okay with it but every now and again I get a message saying that Time Machine has been unable to verify the backup and has to make a new one. This is starting to annoy me ...

Over the break, I upgraded my 2020 27-inch iMac to macOS 14 Sonoma, which I’ve been running on my M1 MacBook Air for months. The process was simple and easy, and everything continued to work with no ...

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 ...

Rebit backup works like a Windows version of Mac OS Time Machine, but with business-oriented features like NAS support Rebit is in the business of providing what InfoWorld’s Martin Heller calls ...