#BackupUșor for Apple users

Apple users are, for the most part, people who want simplicity and productivity, without much hassle with IT.

Apple’s philosophy has been to build into the operating system everything you might need, without turning to outside solutions. For backup, Apple did the same: it simplified the process, gave it an interesting name, “Time Machine”, and in 2007, with the launch of Mac OS X Leopard, built it right into the operating system.

Time Machine still exists in macOS today and remains a good solution for a single Mac: it automatically makes copies to an external drive or to a NAS on the network, with hourly, daily and weekly versions. For a company, however, it has a few limits:

• the copy usually sits next to the computer, on an external drive, so a theft, a fire or ransomware can take both the original and the copy;
• each Mac is set up separately, and nobody checks, at company level, whether the backups are actually running;
• laptops used outside the office often go days without a backup, because the drive isn’t connected.

When we wrote this article in 2020, we said that companies want to use their employees’ time efficiently, not keep them busy with processes that can be handled by technology or outsourced. In 2026, that’s just as true.

#BackupUșor, simply put

Backup as a Service (BaaS) appeared a few years ago precisely to meet this need and has evolved over time into managed backup (Managed Backup Services), the natural next step in outsourcing technology services. Why look after servers, NAS devices, software or cloud services when you can turn to a managed IT services provider (MSP, Managed Service Provider) like RezolvIT?

With #BackupUșor, RezolvIT’s managed backup service, your data is protected locally, on your own network, or in the cloud, and the backups are configured and monitored by the RezolvIT team. It works the same way for Mac and Windows, so the company has a single backup policy for all its computers.

For those who love technical details: data encryption, compression, scheduled and incremental backup, keeping several versions of your files according to rules you set, and email notifications when something goes wrong.

How do you back up your company’s Macs in 2026?

1. Turn on FileVault, the disk encryption built into macOS. A stolen laptop no longer means stolen data too.
2. Keep Time Machine for quick restores, on a drive with an encrypted backup (the option is right there in the Time Machine settings).
3. Add a copy outside the office, managed and checked, following the 3-2-1 backup rule.
4. Don’t confuse iCloud Drive with a backup. Syncing also carries deletions and files encrypted by ransomware to every device. We wrote about the difference between syncing and backup in the article on keeping your company’s critical documents safe.
5. Test restoring from time to time: a backup you haven’t checked may not work exactly when you need it.

Wondering whether Macs need antivirus too? We answered that in the article on antivirus protection on the Mac.

The takeaway: whether we use Apple or Microsoft, managed backup is the simplest way for companies to keep their data safe, without the hassle. If you want to see how the backups at your company are doing, request a free IT audit.