There are many ways to backup your Mac computer and restore all of its data: cloud-based software, third-party apps, external hard drives. Time Machine is a software that's built into your Mac ...

Restore a Time Machine backup to your Mac 1. First open the Apple Migration Assistant on your MacBook laptop or Apple desktop computer.

If you have a Time Machine backup handy, here’s how to restore from Time Machine, how to recover files from your back up, and how to use Time Machine to migrate to a new Mac, and more.

Here's how to regularly or manually back up your data, and then restore it on your Mac using Apple's Time Machine feature.

Time Machine can restore Mac files individually and from a particular date and time while presenting the information in a fun, user-friendly way.