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

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

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

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.

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 ...

Don't risk losing everything on your Mac! It's simple to back up using Apple's Time Machine.

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 is a great tool that automagically backs up your Mac every hour (when plugged into power). What some users may not know is you can use Time Machine to restore specific files to your Mac.