Online user guide for macOS Time Machine.
NAS (Network Attached Storage)
| Subject | Answer ID | Title |
| Configuration | 2374 | Starting macOS Time Machine Backups to My Cloud and Network Attached Storage |
| Configuration | 21360 | How To Start Time Machine Backups Over SMB in macOS Sierra 10.12 |
| Configuration | 5156 | How to Disable and Enable My Cloud Mac Backup "Time Machine" Option |
| Configuration | 26160 | How to Encrypt a Time Machine Backup |
| Configuration | 24957 | How to View and Recover a file from a Time Machine Backup |
| Configuration | 14023 | How to delete Time Machine backups on a My Book World (White Light) drive |
| Solution | 18982 | Error: 'Time Machine could not complete the backup.' occurs when backing up to the Time Machine share |
| Solution | 8318 | Time Machine backup takes a long time to complete |
| Solution | 14734 | Time Machine Must Create A New Backup For You |
| Solution | 12451 | macOS 10.12 (Sierra) Time Machine backup fails with 'OSStatus Error 65' on a My Cloud device |
| Solution | 3395 | Error: 'The network backup disk does not support the required AFP features' is displayed using Time Machine on Mac OSX 10.7 |
| Solution | 18547 | macOS 10.12 (Sierra) Time Machine backup fails with 'OSStatus Error 65' on My Book Live and My Book Live Duo |
| Solution | 21047 | Apple Time Machine backups fail with error 516 when backing up to a WD Sentinel product |
| Solution | 4290 | Dashboard on a WD Sentinel DS series shows backup status as 'Unsuccessful' during a Time Machine backup |
| Solution | 5418 | My Passport Wireless Pro All LED Blinking At First Time Boot After Time Machine Formatted Backup |
| Solution | 12797 | On a WD Sentinel DS Series, the AFP service will create Time Machine share on USB stick if connected as D drive during activation |
| Solution | 12057 | Time Machine backup stored on a My Cloud device cannot be restored |
| Solution | 4291 | On a WD Sentinel DS series, Time Machine backups are created on the boot drive |
| Solution | 20067 | On Mac OSX Mavericks, Time Machine fails to detect a My Book World Edition or My Book World Edition II network drive |
| Solution | 28161 | Time Machine stops backing up or backup fails to a My Cloud Home |
| Solution | 7749 | My Cloud Home Time Machine Backups Not Accepting Registered User Password |
| Solution | 13315 | My Cloud Home Time Machine Backups With The Registered User |
| Solution | 29683 | My Cloud Home Time Machine Backup Error 45 |
| Solution | 29783 | How to Delete a Time Machine Backup on a My Cloud or My Cloud Home |
| Solution | 29466 | How to Recover from a Time Machine Backup using macOS Recovery Mode |
DAS (Direct Attached Storage)
| Subject | Answer ID | Title |
| Configuration | 18952 | Starting macOS Time Machine Backups to My Passport and External USB Drives |
| Configuration | 22878 | How to initiate a backup with Time Machine after a firmware upgrade on a WD My Book drive with Mac OSX 10.6.x |
| Configuration | 24957 | How to View and Recover a file from a Time Machine Backup | Solution | 7015 | Time Machine Is Not Accepting My Password |
| Solution | 6977 | Error preparing the Time Machine disk - Couldn't unmount disk |
| Solution | 11433 | Time Machine running in Mac OS 10.5.x stops backing up to an external drive |
| Solution | 24863 | Initial Time Machine Backup Failed or Could Not Complete |