Your Mac needs to be running Mac OS X Leopard or later but we’d recommend updating to the latest version of the Mac Operating System.īest SSDs, to help you find the best option for backing up to. You can also use Time Machine to back up to a server on your network as long as it’s running macOS Server, We’d advise getting a unit offering at least 1TB if you can afford it. This could be a USB, Firewire or Thunderbolt hard drive or SSD that you plug into your Mac, or a NAS drive which your Mac connects to via a WiFi network. You’ll need a reasonably large external storage device. All your settings and all your files and folders will be just as you left them.We’ll cover how to recover your Mac using the Time Machine back up, and how to copy your Time Machine backup to a new Mac, below. But when you do get to that point the older backups will be deleted to make space for new ones.Īll this backing up means that if you ever get a new Mac you can use your Time Machine back up to ‘recover’ your old Mac onto your new Mac.
The other benefit is that because Time Machine isn’t backing up your whole Mac every time, it shouldn’t take a whole lot of space up on your backup drive.
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