Apple lets you use Time Machine to create a backup from your Mac of all the data files, apps, and other stuff that’s not part of the macOS system installation. (Before macOS 11 Big Sur, you could back ...

Some users have had trouble with Time Machine not completing backups. One remedy to which these users have resorted involves stopping the Time Machine progress and deleting the ".inprogress" file.

Time Machine is purposely very limited in configurability for the sake of providing users with an easy to use yet powerful and complete backup system. The provided controls for Time Machine are ...