In previous releases of macOS, you could setup macOS Server on a “host” Mac and then share a mounted hard drive as a Time Machine disk over the network – but in High Sierra this functionality is now built-in. But if something does go wrong with your Mac and you wind up losing days, weeks, or even months worth of data, then you’re going to regret falling behind on your Time Machine backups! How many times have you forgot to plug the external hard drive into your Mac, only for your scheduled Time Machine backup to fail as a result?Ĭreating a backup is one of those annoying tasks that’s easy to keep putting off, especially if you need to attach an external hard drive to your Mac every single time you create a backup.
