The hard drive in my folks Mac Mini has passed away, I was like ok no problem this is why we have time machine running. So I do a clean install on a new hard drive and restore from the time machine ...

Your best bet is probably to get an external enclosure for the SSD. Put it in it, clone to it with Carbon Copy Cloner or something similar, and then swap the SSD into place. This should ...

Time Machine remains an outstanding solution for local backups on your Mac, but backups require an external drive, no cloud backups here. We all understand the importance of backing up a Mac, despite ...