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Time Machine and backing up
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1489085"><p>Time Capsule is a piece of hardware kit from Apple -- a combination wireless router and wireless backup hard drive. Very nice, but not mandatory.</p><p></p><p>Time Machine is the software on your Mac that handles backing up to external (wired) hard drives or the Time Capsule. Amazing, automatic software.</p><p></p><p>We (the collective folks who hang out on this forum) strongly recommend backups, particularly as we (society) put more and more of our most valuable data (photos, financial/medical records, diaries, work files, etc) on our devices. In addition to local backups, the most critical data should also be backed up offsite in case of local disaster. You can use cloud backup systems (not iCloud, it doesn't offer the needed capacity) for this, or other remote backup systems. You also have backup options beyond Time Machine if you wish.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1489085"] Time Capsule is a piece of hardware kit from Apple -- a combination wireless router and wireless backup hard drive. Very nice, but not mandatory. Time Machine is the software on your Mac that handles backing up to external (wired) hard drives or the Time Capsule. Amazing, automatic software. We (the collective folks who hang out on this forum) strongly recommend backups, particularly as we (society) put more and more of our most valuable data (photos, financial/medical records, diaries, work files, etc) on our devices. In addition to local backups, the most critical data should also be backed up offsite in case of local disaster. You can use cloud backup systems (not iCloud, it doesn't offer the needed capacity) for this, or other remote backup systems. You also have backup options beyond Time Machine if you wish. [/QUOTE]
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