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 ...

In the distant past (2007 to 2011 or so) I experimented with using a number of different NAS platforms as Time Machine destinations including at that time FreeNAS as well as some commercial products ...

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.

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 ...