Backing Up To And Restoring From Your Ez Media & Backup Center; Backing Up Macs With Time Machine; Copy Jobs Overview - Lenovo EZ Media & Backup Center User Manual

Backing up to and Restoring from Your EZ Media &
Backup Center

Backing up Macs with Time Machine

You can use Time Machine to back up a Mac client computer to the EZ Media network storage device.
Follow the instructions below to set up Time Machine backups to your EZ Media:
1. Connect your Mac to your EZ Media using Apple File Protocol (AFP). You can do this using
LenovoEMC Storage Manager for Mac or Bonjour.
2. Mount the Backup Share from the EZ Media network device.
If you want to create a new Share for Time Machine backups, you can do so using the EZ Media
management console. Mount the Share you want to use before proceeding to the next step.
3. Select System Preferences... from the Apple Menu.
4. Select Time Machine (listed under System).
5. Click ON to enable Time Machine.
6. From the list of available drives, choose the desired Share on your EZ Media, then click Use for
Backup.
7. Time Machine will automatically create the sparsebundle image under the selected Share and
begin backing up your computer to your network storage device. After the initial backup, Time
Machine backs up files every hour.
Time Machine uses a single destination drive for backups. If you have previously set up another
drive for Time Machine backups and want to change to use the EZ Media network device, click
Select Disk, then choose the desired Share on your EZ Media.

Copy Jobs Overview

You can back up content to and from your EZ Media & Backup Center using the Copy Jobs feature. Copy
Jobs copies files from one storage device to another, either by a set schedule or immediately by the user.
An example of a Copy Job scenario is if you keep pictures from your digital camera on a separate USB
drive, but you also want to maintain a backup of these pictures on your EZ Media. Using Copy Jobs, you
can create a task that copies your photos on the USB drive to a Share on your EZ Media, and you can set
that task to a schedule so the images automatically copy at a specific time. This ensures that your photos
are always safely backed up to your EZ Media in the event your USB device ever fails or is lost.
For more information, refer to Backing up Your EZ Media & Backup Center
Backing up to and Restoring from Your EZ Media & Backup Center
Backing up and Restoring Your Content
on the next page.
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