If you chose to encrypt your backup in Step 5, choose a secure password and select Encrypt Disk. If you have existing backups, choose the option that best suits you. This will need to be changed to the Central's user name, along with the corresponding password.įor more information on Time Machine backups, such as restoring files or your entire system, refer to Apple Time Machine Support. Note: Your Mac will auto-populate the user name field with your computer's user name. If prompted, enter the name and password that correspond to the user’s account on the Seagate Central. Once the drive is selected, click on Use Disk. (Optional: You may check the Encrypt Backups box.) Select your Seagate Central, which will be TM BACKUP from the list of backup options. Open System Preferences and then select Time Machine. If you have not done so already, set up your Seagate Central. Even if there’s only one, you must click it to select it.Please follow this procedure to set up a backup using Time Machine: You'll be prompted to select the disk where your backups are. Click Continue and follow the on-screen instructions:į. You’ll see a Restore Your System screen with some information and warnings. Select Restore From Time Machine Backup (Lion) or Restore System from Backups (Leopard or Snow Leopard). (If you're going to restore a data-only volume, see question #15.) Then quit Disk Utility and continue.Į. See Copying a volume via the Restore Tab for details.

If you'e restoring both an OSX volume and copying a second one containing user home folders, select Disk Utility and restore the one with the home folders via the Restore tab. Quit Disk Utility and you’ll see the Utilities menu again.ĭ. Click the Options button below the box, and select GUID for an Intel Mac, or Apple Partition Map for a PPC Mac, and click the OK button, then Apply. On Lion, you can select an encrypted version of either of those. Give it a name (probably Macintosh HD) under Volume Information, and select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) for the Format unless you're certain you need Mac OS Extended (Case-sensitive, journaled). (If any of your user home folders were on a separate internal HD or partition, be sure the new disk(s) are set up the same way.) If you're restoring to a new disk, or one that may not be formatted properly, select Disk Utility and format the drive: Select the top line (with the make and size), click the Partition tab and select 1 Partition from the the pop-up menu under Volume Scheme, unless you need more than one.

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