Lesson 17. Manage Time Machine

Goals

  • Describe Time Machine

  • Configure Time Machine to back up files

  • Restore files from a Time Machine backup

  • Restore an entire Mac from a Time Machine backup

In this lesson, you learn how Time Machine enables you to browse the backup history of a file system. You become familiar with how to configure Time Machine. And you explore ways to recover files from Time Machine backups.

Reference 17.1 About Time Machine

Every Mac includes Time Machine. Time Machine backs up your entire Mac, including system files, apps, music, photos, email, and documents, to an external storage device. If you accidentally delete or change files, you can use Time Machine to recover them.

Time Machine also performs local snapshots, ...

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