But before that, let’s take a look at how Time Machine works.
The following parts will mainly introduce some useful ways to help Mac users fix the issue when Time Machine says preparing backup. They don’t know what happened and how to solve the problem efficiently.
Many users found their Time Machine preparing backup all the time the backing up process seems to last forever. Though Time Machine works perfect most of the time for backing up, it still fails sometimes. Time Machine gives support to all common external storage devices, which you can connect over USB &Thunderbolt (for a wired connection) or a network (for a wireless connection).Īnyone running macOS, the desktop operating system developed by Apple Inc., can use Time Machine to backup systems and files. It was firstly introduced in Mac OS X Leopard to help users back their operating systems conveniently and safely. As most of you know, Time Machine is the built-in backup software in macOS designed by Apple.
