《Apple Time Machine》.pdfVIP

Apple Time Machine Backing up The Apple Time Machine is a built-in feature on Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard computers that can back up everything on your computer: music, photos, documents, applications, e-mails, and system files. The My Book Live drive can store these backups, so that if your hard drive or operating system should crash, or you lose a file, you can easily restore it to your computer. Setting up Time Machine To set up Time Machine to back up files to your My Book Live drive: 1. Use one of the following methods to open Time Machine. Click the Time Machine icon in the Dock: Click the Apple menu System Preferences and select Time Machine. Click Go Applications and select Time Machine. 2. If this is your first time creating a backup, the following screen displays: Click Set Up Time Machine to display the Time Machine Preferences screen: 3. Click Choose Backup Disk and select the My Book Live drive where you want the backups stored: 4. Click Use for Backup. A screen prompts for your user name and password. 5. Select Guest (default setting) and click Connect: The Preferences screen returns: 6. To start automatic backups, move the slider to ON. 7. To add a Time Machine drop-down menu icon to the menu bar at the top of the screen, select the Show the Time Machine status in the menu bar check box. This menu enables you to start a backup, enter Time Machine to restore files, or open the Time Machine Preferences screen: Time Machine begins backing up your files. The first backup may take some time, but subsequent backups are faster because Time Machine only backs up new or changed items. A status bar displays the progress of the backup: Time Machine backs up your computer every hour and keeps the following backup sets: Every hour for 24 hours Every day for the past month Weekly until the My Bo