You can choose which files and folder Time Machine backs up. When an existing device reports that it’s full, that’s one solution. As the amount of files you have stored on you Mac increases, you may ...

Since its introduction in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Apple’s Time Machine has become one of the Mac’s most essential features, providing transparent, fully automatic, full-machine backup to an external ...

Apple apparently recommends that your Time Machine drive has double the capacity of your internal drive, I guess so you can back up all of the contents of your internal drive plus versions. My old ...

Yesterday, we wrote about size considerations for Time Machine drives, and while that is one of the most discussed topics for new Time Machine users, many people also debate on the security and ...

In Mountain Lion, Apple has added an option to support multiple disks and multiple locations with its Time Machine backups. Topher Kessler MacFixIt Editor Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

In macOS Big Sur, Time Machine added support for backups onto APFS-formatted volumes (the filesystem that Apple introduced a few releases ago). But Apple omitted a big footnote that should be in its ...

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.