Mac: Restore Time Machine Backup

As soon as you want to set up your Mac again, you need the Time Machine backup. This is also the case if you accidentally deleted an important file from your Mac. Then you need to restore the Time Machine backup.

How to restore your Time Machine backup

Surely macOS is a secure operating system, but still errors can creep in. That's why you should always have a Time Machine backup up your sleeve.

1. Open Mac Setup and wait for the system to ask you if you want to create a backup.
2. Select the option "From a Mac, Time Machine backup or boot volume."
3. Now you need to connect the media where you saved the backup. It is easiest if you have saved the Time Machine backup on a USB stick.
4. Now the system will show you if the media has been detected. Then click "Continue".
5. It begins the readback process, which may take some time.
6. In order for the Time Machine backup to restore itself, you should make sure that the process is not interrupted. Das kann sonst für Betriebsfehler sorgen.

Im Voraus planen

Da das Herstellen eines Time Machine Backups einige Zeit in Anspruch nimmt, sollten Sie ausreichend Zeit einplanen. Insbesondere dann, wenn das Backup einige Dateien wiederherstellen muss, kann dieser Prozess schnell eine Stunde oder länger dauern.