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Using Time Machine with the NSA

13.1 Overview

Time Machine is a backup system provided by Mac OS X. It automatically backs up everything on your Mac, including pictures, music, videos, documents, applications, and settings. This chapter helps you to enable Time Machine in OS X to use your NSA as a backup volume.

13.2 Time Machine Screen

Use the Time Machine screen to turn Time Machine support on or off, and designate the share for Time Machine backups.

Click Applications > Time Machine to open the following screen.

Figure 162 Applications > Time Machine

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 97 Applications > Time Machine

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable Time

Select this to allow Macs to use Time Machine to back up to the NSA. Clear it to turn off

Machine

Time Machine support.

 

 

Share

Select the share the NSA uses to store Time Machine backups.

 

 

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

 

 

Reset

Click this to restore the screen’s last-saved settings.

 

 

13.3 Using Time Machine

After enabling Time Machine on the NSA, follow the steps below to set up Time Machine on your Mac to use your NSA for backup.

 

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