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wide variety of NAS servers, but later versions require the server to sup-
port a recent version of Apple's Apple Filing Pprotocol (AFP) and Time
Machine no longer works with servers using the Server Message Block
(SMB) protocol typical for Windows servers. Some of the legacy support
can be re-enabled by using hand-tuned configuration options, accessed
through the Terminal. Apple's Time Capsule acts as a network storage
device specifically for Time Machine backups, allowing both wired and
wireless backups to the Time Capsule's internal hard drive. Time Machine
may alternatively be used with any external or internal volume.

Time Machine saves hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups
for the past month, and weekly backups for everything older than a month
until the volume runs out of space. At that point, Time Machine deletes
the oldest weekly backup

Windows machines from Win 7 onwards offer a built in backup and re-
store. Backup systems produced in Windows 7 will still work in Windows
10.

It does image backups for system protection and file backups for regular
data protection--and does both for the Home Premium as well as the Busi-
ness and Ultimate editions. For file backups, it defaults to backing up ex-
actly what you should be backing up (libraries, appdata, and a few other
important folders), and lets you tell it to back up any other folders you
want to protect