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

Once you have an up-to-date Time Machine backup which Apple will take automatically every hour when your computer is connected to your external storage solution.

Click the Apple menu on your MacBook Pro and select "System Preferences." Open "Time Machine" and ensure the slider is in the "On" position. Select the Time Capsule as your desired backup device.

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

That's why Apple introduced Time Machine, OS X's built-in backup app, in 2007 with Mac OS X 10.5. It's easy to outgrow a hard drive, so you may need to transfer your Time Machine backups to a new ...

Until the release of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), backing up was left to the individual Mac user. With Leopard, however, Apple introduced Time Machine, which you might call 'backup for the rest of us'.