Is this Mac actually backed up?

Pillar one

Protection you can glance at.

Protected, Aging, or Not protected, with the reason spelled out, judged only by the last backup that finished. While a backup runs you get live phase and percent, and Heartwood keeps a derived history of successful versus failed attempts, so a backup server that quietly stopped accepting backups weeks ago cannot hide.

• The verdict in the Heartwood menu and in small and medium desktop widgets, with an attention dot on the menu-bar icon
• Live progress with phase and percent during a backup
• History of successes and failures, derived on device
• Your threshold: you decide when recent stops being recent

Pillar two

Shares that stay mounted.

A remote Time Machine destination only works while its share is reachable, and macOS is lazy about coming back after sleep or a network change. Heartwood remounts your SMB and WebDAV shares at login, on wake, and on network changes, with credentials kept in the Keychain and reachability probing designed to stay out of your way.

• Auto-mount at login, on wake, and when the network changes
• Credentials live in the macOS Keychain, nowhere else
• When your backup destination is a managed share, its health comes straight from the mount state

By design

Quiet until it matters.

Notifications fire on transitions only: your backups went stale, the destination dropped, protection recovered. Never a ping per check. The menu-bar icon can even hide until you hover, and it always comes back on its own when something needs attention.