Using Time Machine; Setting Up Time Machine - Western Digital WD ShareSpace User Manual

Using Time Machine™

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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, emails, and system files. The WD ShareSpace drive
(firmware versions later than 2.1.92) 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 on your WD ShareSpace 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 the Set Up Time Machine button to display the Time Machine
Preferences screen.
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