Here's how to automatically or manually back up your data, and then restore it on your Mac using Apple's Time Machine feature ...

Regularly backing up your Mac with Time Machine can prevent data loss and allow you to restore earlier versions of files.

Time Machine is Apple's backup system that automatically saves your Mac's files. Here's how to use the macOS file protection feature.

Another big plus with Apple's solution is that a Time Machine backup can be used in Recovery Mode to restore your Mac to its original state if the worst happens and your drive fails. Likewise, the ...

You can restore your Mac using Time Machine and an external hard drive. Time Machine automatically creates backups of your Mac every hour.

Enabling Time Machine Before you can start backing up your Mac using Time Machine, you first have to enable it and set up the external hard drive that you want to back up to.

Time Machine can restore Mac files individually and from a particular date and time while presenting the information in a fun, user-friendly way.

If Time Machine is not already configured on your Mac, then when you plug in your external drive, the system will show a prompt asking you whether you would like to use the drive for Time Machine ...