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Verbatim is a Mitsubishi Kagaku Media Company
Using Time Machine with your Verbatim portable 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 Verbatim portable 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
Verbatim portable Hard Drive for the first time if the device shall be used as backup
drive.
2. After your Verbatim portable Hard Drive appeared on the desktop, click on “Use as
Backup Disk” to confirm that you want to use your Verbatim portable 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 Verbatim portable 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 Verbatim portable 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!
