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Hello and welcome to Hands on Tech. I am Micah Sargent, and as is always the case here on the show,

it is my privilege and my pleasure to be able to answer your tech questions. This week, Doug has written in with a great question.

Doug writes, I am a Mac user and an occasional Windows PC user.

On my Mac, I have everything backed up using Time Machine.

Is there something similar on the Windows side, something that offers the reliability and ease of use to set it and forget it?

Thanks.

This is a great question.

For people who are on the Windows side, Time Machine is a system on Mac OS that lets you create regular backups of your machine.

Now, depending on how you have things set up, most people are probably going to have either network attached storage

or physically attached storage. And time machine creates different sets of backups of your system.

So they can be days, they can be hours, they can be weeks, they can be months, and it essentially

lets you go back in time,

hence time machine, to roll back changes that you had on your Mac.

This can be for individual apps, so a file, for example, in pages, which is Mac OS's word processor, would let you see a document that maybe you made some changes to

and then realize, oh, no, no, no, I actually want to have the third version back of that

and roll those changes back. It's very handy and very easy to use. I have a time machine

backup that is a full two terabytes of space that backs up all the time.

And it also serves as the tool to let you kind of, if your Mac starts misbehaving and you need to reset it, restart it, re it, erase it, then you can also get your files

and everything back in place using Time Machine. So for a lot of users, it's one of the first things

that we set up whenever we set up a Mac. And the good thing is, as Doug is mentioning, it mostly is set it and forget it kind of system.

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