![]() ![]() The Time Machine preference in System Preferences provides the specifics of what Time Machine keeps and how long each backup is kept. The benefit of Time Machine is that you get a deep historical record of all your files and can restore several version of a single document. Initial backups copy most of the contents of your hard drive and after the initial backup Time Machine wakes up every hour, looks at a catalog of changed files, keeps the files it originally backed up and adds the changed files to your backup. If you’ve ever plugged an external hard drive into your Mac without Time Machine running, you’ve likely seen Time Machine open and ask if you want to use that drive for backing up your Mac. There’s very little configuration necessary to get Time Machine up and running on a Mac. What you may not know is that the macOS Server app offers a way for you to back up all the Macs in your home, small office, or your entire enterprise environment. But, unless you have an Airport Time Capsule, it’s likely that you only think about Time Machine as a way to back your Mac up to an external hard drive connected to your Mac. You’re probably familiar with Time Machine, Apple’s excellent built-in backup application designed to make backing up your Mac and restoring data simple and safe.
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