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Backing up with Time Machine

Backing up with Time Machine

- We're going to need 1.21 gigawatts to get "Back to the Future," as we look at Time Machine. Join us. - [Narrator] You're watching "ITProTV." (upbeat music) - Hello, welcome back to "Apple Certified Support Professional macOS 11 Big Sur." I'm Zach, and this is Don. Don, we're going to go "Back to the Future" in this episode, aren't we? - That's right, we're going to be learning a little bit about Apple's Time Machine software, which allows us to quickly set up backups for our macOS systems. We'll see how Time Machine works, we'll see how to configure it and get it enabled and to verify that a backup is actually able to execute all in this action-packed adventure. (Zach laughs) - It's going to be an adventure. So how does Time Machine work? That's the obvious question. - All right, so basically what Time Machine does is it works on a simple principle is if you lose a file or lose a hard drive, wouldn't it be…

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