Time Machine will schedule your first backup to start in just two minutes. You tell Time Machine which drive to use for backups by clicking the “Select Backup Disk…” button, selecting your newly plugged in drive, then clicking the “Use for Backup” button. You can start configuring Time Machine by clicking on its icon if it’s on your Dock, or launching System Preferences and clicking on the Time Machine icon there. When you let go of your click, the drive’s name should be highlighted and editable. You can change the drive’s name by clicking on the name under the drive’s icon and holding for two seconds. It will make it immediately obvious which is your Time Machine Backup and which is your iTunes Music Library. This is especially useful if you ever have more than one of these drives.
The first thing I like to do is change that name to something that describes what I’m using the drive for. New external drives often show up on your Desktop with the brand name and model (for instance, in the above video, mine is “WD Passport”). (But do NOT unplug it without reading the important instructions later in this article.) It’s perfectly fine to plug in an external drive while your computer is on. Setting up Time Machineīefore setting up Time Machine, you first need to plug your external drive into your computer. In that case, you’ll still have a backup copy of every file, you just won’t have as many historical versions of them. But if you download, create, or edit lots of big video files and your backup drive isn’t a lot bigger than your internal drive, your Time Machine backups won’t go back as far. If you mainly use your computer for surfing the web, each hourly backup will likely be small (and quick) and your Time Machine backups will ultimately go far back in time. The only constraints on how far back these backups go are the capacity of your backup drive and how big each incremental backup is. As you’ll see in its preferences window, Time Machine keeps:
After that, it’s intelligent and only copies the files that have changed (this is called an “incremental backup”).
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It only does a full backup the first time. Time Machine doesn’t make a full backup of your computer every time it runs. Lets you browse and recover old files from the Finder and also directly from other Apple applications like iPhoto, Address Book, Mail.Keeps previous versions of files that have changed.What Time Machine has going for it is it: Your external drive may have even come with backup software. There are many backup applications out there and many perform most of the functions of Apple’s Time Machine. Video too small? Watch full screen by clicking the button here ↑ What Time Machine does You’ll be breathing easier in no time at all. In this video I show you how easy it is to plug one into your computer and quickly set up the Time Machine application that comes with your Mac. And you’ll pat yourself on the back for being so intelligent for having a good computer backup.Įxternal hard drives are a great way to back up your computer and they are now amazingly cheap. If you back up your computer regularly and correctly, these otherwise devastating catastrophes become a minor hurdle that you can overcome quickly. Even computer geeks accidentally delete a folder of important files when they meant to delete something else. All hard drives will fail, it’s just a question of when.
It’s your choice, but don’t say you haven’t been warned. Learn from the first group and start backing up your computer NOW!.Experience a painful loss of important photos, videos, music, emails and documents, and THEN start backing up, or.If you are in the second group you have two options: There are two types of people in the world: Those who have forever lost important computer files, and those who haven’t…YET! Most people in the first group have learned their lesson (the hard way) and are now backing up their computer on a regular basis.
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