We’ve all been there—that sinking feeling when a file vanishes, a system crashes, or a project you’ve poured hours into suddenly disappears. Whether it’s a hardware failure, accidental deletion, or an ...

Take an Airport Extreme 802.11n base station, add a 3.5-inch internal drive and modify the device’s firmware to permit the built-in LAN to share a drive as a volume (a device) rather than a folder ...

Get simple desktop widgets for monitoring Time Machine. Image: D. Griffin Jones/Cult of Mac Backup Status is a simple app that puts a Time Machine widget on your Mac desktop (or stows it away in your ...

Apple’s Time Capsule base station put a Wi-Fi access point, a network router, and a backup drive that tied into Time Machine all in a single box. That was its downfall, too: if the drive failed or ...

I used the advice in this thread viewtopic.php?f=19&t=39716 to set up a shared Time Machine volume (USB HD) that sits behind my AEBS. The Macs in my home are now set ...