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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Time Machine drives may periodically change to read-only, depending on the circumstances of use. For some users, after updating to 10.5.3 they noticed this occurred with their TM drives. Additionally, ...

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 ...

When buying a drive for Time Machine backups, it’s always a good idea to get one that’s larger than you expect you’ll need—plan for the future! If you need to offload gigabytes of non-backup files ...

As much as I love Time Machine in OS X 10.5—I’ve already used it a number of times to recover from various PEBKAC errors—there’s one thing about it that I don’t really like: the fact that it’s visible ...