You can find a ton of them, and they're really cheap, if you look online at sites or go to a local computer store. You can do that with a desktop computer like an iMac or if you have a MacBook but it mostly sits on your desk and doesn't move around. One is with the drive directly connected to your Mac. So what sort of drive do you need? Well, there are two ways to back up using Time Machine. In fact if your drive fails or if your computer is stolen you can recreate everything on your computer by restoring from a Time Machine back up. System files, library files, things like fonts and all sorts of settings and preferences. So Time Machine backs up your entire drive. It's very important if you made a change that you regret or if you deleted a file and now you want it back. Plus, Time Machine allows you to go back and look at older versions of your files. So why not have an extra back up of your data. But it's still useful to have a Time Machine back up to have that stuff backed up to another drive locally. If you use iCloud to store all of your documents, all of your photos then it is true you do have copies of that on Apple servers. I often hear people say, well I'm backing up to iCloud so I don't need Time Machine. Having a back up of your data is very important. So first should you be using Time machine to back up your Mac? The answer is definitely YES. But you may have some questions about why and how it works. So Time Machine is something we should all be using to back up our Macs.
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Today I'm going to answer some of the most frequently asked questions about Time Machine. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Frequently Asked Questions About Time Machine at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.