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 ...

Update: SuperDuper developer Dave Nanian reports that Apple has fixed the issue in macOS 15.3. SuperDuper developer Shirt Pocket originally used its own code to create bootable backups of Mac volumes, ...

Time Machine offers a powerful continuous archiving tool for files on your Mac. By design, Apple keeps it simple: it lets you select just a single set of volumes (and excluded volumes, folders, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple disbanded its router hardware team in 2016 and officially exited the business in 2018. Now in 2025, Apple is signaling that one of the last remaining benefits of its networking hardware will be ...

My backup strategy with my main Mac has been to use a networked Time Machine backup and also a Time Machine backup to an external HDD that I connect perhaps a couple of times per month. So far, that ...

For the past decade, my Apple Time Capsule has faithfully backed up my Mac. I’ve been through several upgrades over the past decade—my current machine is an M3 Max MacBook Pro—and I’ve never had an ...

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 ...