Freecom TD SSD User Manual - Manual (Page 10)

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FREECOM MOBILE HARD DRIVE
FREECOM DESKTOP HARD DRIVE
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Using Time Machine with your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop Hard
Drive
Time Machine allows you making automated backups of your complete system under Mac
OS X 10.5 and Mac OS 10.6 or higher.
1. Connect your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop Hard Drive via the interface to
your Mac. If you did not specify a backup volume yet, Time Machine will ask you when
connecting the Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop Hard Drive for the first time if
the device shall be used as backup drive.
2. After your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop Hard Drive appeared on the desktop,
click on "Use as Backup Disk” to confirm that you want to use your Freecom Mobile Hard
Drive / Desktop Hard Drive for Time Machine backups. In the Time Machine preferences
you can configure your backup settings further.
Time Machine now automatically creates backups of your Mac. Time Machine will keep
hourly backups for the last 24 hours, daily backups for the last month and weekly backups
until your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop Hard Drive is full.
The first backup can take some time, so you should set up Time Machine, for example, in
the evening, so the first backup can be created overnight.
Remark: If your Freecom Mobile Hard Drive / Desktop Hard Drive is
formatted in NTFS or FAT 32 format, you need to format your hard
dive in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Doing so will delete
ALL your data!