Help with setting up time machine ?? Dont know how too.

Hi guys,
My laptop is going away to get fixed tomorrow and i cant seem to back my laptop up onto a dvdr so i was just looking at all my stuff when i saw the time machine application, so i tried to set it up but there doesn't seem to be any options to start the set up, i wondered if anyone could help me,
Cheers.

Here's a tutorial on [How to set up Time Machine|http://www.ehow.com/how2141709time-machine-mac-osx-leopard.html]
Hope this helps -GDF

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I would like help with setting up time machine for backup.

You will need an external hard drive (formatted for a Mac).
Then you plug it in and go to system preferences>time machine and select the external HD and turn it on.
The backups are automatic.
Barry

New help with my mac air and airport extreme time capsule dont know how to save to time capsule and use as a external hd

new help with my mac air and airport extreme time capsule dont know how to save to time capsule and use as a external hd would like 2 store my home videos and pictures on the time machine (ONLY) as the MAC AIR has storage space limited space please help. THANK YOU.

See the info here about sharing or using the TC for data.
Q3 http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
It is extremely important you realise.. the Time Capsule was never designed for this.
It is a backup target for Time Machine.. that is the software on the computer that does backups.. it has no direct connection to the Time Capsule.
It has no ability to back itself up.. unlike all other NAS in the market. It is therefore likely one day you will lose all your files unless you seriously work out how to backup.
The TC is slow to spin up the hard disk and fast to spin down. iTunes and iPhoto will continually lose connection to their respective libraries.
iPhoto in particular is easy to corrupt when you move photos over wireless into the library.. once corrupted all is corrupt. A single photo will ruin it all.. so backup is utterly essential.
Time Machine cannot do backups of network drives. ie the TC. You will need a different backup software like CCC. You will then need another target to backup to..

HT204057 new help with my mac air and airport extreme time capsule dont know how to save to time capsule and use as a external hd

i just bought a new mac air and the new airport extreme time capsule im would like to know how to use the time capsule as storage for my pics and videos as the mac are has low storage space can any one walk me through this process?

See the info here about sharing or using the TC for data.
Q3 http://pondini.org/TM/Time_Capsule.html
It is extremely important you realise.. the Time Capsule was never designed for this.
It is a backup target for Time Machine.. that is the software on the computer that does backups.. it has no direct connection to the Time Capsule.
It has no ability to back itself up.. unlike all other NAS in the market. It is therefore likely one day you will lose all your files unless you seriously work out how to backup.
The TC is slow to spin up the hard disk and fast to spin down. iTunes and iPhoto will continually lose connection to their respective libraries.
iPhoto in particular is easy to corrupt when you move photos over wireless into the library.. once corrupted all is corrupt. A single photo will ruin it all.. so backup is utterly essential.
Time Machine cannot do backups of network drives. ie the TC. You will need a different backup software like CCC. You will then need another target to backup to..

Help with Use of Time Machine

Hi All.
I am not having fun trying to recover mission critical data with Time Machine and I am wondering if I ever understood how this works.
I can only apparently go back by hitting the <- and -> arrows to "Today at 11:50 AM"??
I /can/ see the little sidebar lines go back to July 2011 but when the line gets fat clicking on it does not do anything.
I back up a 1 TB MacPro and a 250 GB MBP to a 2TB TC and I am wondering if I need to download some software - similar in ease of use to Omni Disk Sweeper - in order for me to get a handle on what is going on.
These files go back before Today at Noon and I am thinking it is a very good time for me to figure out if I actually know how to use this Time Machine/Capsule.
Thanks for any help and I have read Pondini's great stuff but if anyone can just verbally walk me through this a little I'd be greatful.
Thanks.

By <- and -> arrows, do you mean the oblique arrows between the Time Machine Finder window the the time line on the right? It can take a long time for Time Machine to respond to clicks on those arrorws, particularly if you're connected to your Time Capsule via Wi-Fi. Try giving it several minutes.
If that doesn't help, check back. There's another way to retrieve files (as opposed to things like Mail messages) from Time Machine.
In the future, since your problem involves Time Machine, a message of this sort would be better posted in the section for your Mac OS X version.
By the way, you don't seem to have declared any of your system details in your profile. Those can help people give you correct advice. To update that, click on "My Stuff" near the top of a window on these discussion groups, then on "Profile". Scroll down to "My Products" and either edit an existing one or add a new one.

How to Advice/help on setting up Time Machine using 3rd party NAS please

I have a mixed home network with both Macs and PCs. All use a NAS device (Buffalo) to store data. I then back up to another drive which I attach via a USB socket on a PC once a week using Acronis. This is a 24-carat pain. I have another NAS device and would like to use Time Machine to back up (a) The Buffalo (b) The Home Folders on the Macs. Actually I haven't managed anything (a) Time Machine only looks for wireless devices (b) Any documentation I've read suggests Terminal commands which might or might not work, sparse images which I don't understand and the rest... I understood from reading that this can work but I can't see how. Does anyone have a "Painting by numbers" scheme for making this work? TM seems such a clever system it seems a shame to have to resort to a normal back-up program. Thanks for any help!

mouson wrote:
I ... would like to use Time Machine to back up (a) The Buffalo
some NAS(es) can be used as destination for time machine backups, however, time machine will not back up networked drives such as a NAS.
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Help with configuration of Time Machine backups on a wireless network

Hello,
I was wondering if someone could help me with the configuration of Time Machine on a wireless network. I have it working some what but I am unsure if this is the best way or if it is the right way.
I have a G4 Mac mini connected to a Airport Extreme base station via ethernet.
I have a Lacie 500GB USB drive connected to the Mac mini (Lacie is formatted GUID)
I have a Macbook that I connect via wireless to the Airport and perform backups to the Lacie 500GB via wireless.
I initially had the USB drive connected to the Macbook and Time Machine worked flawlessly.
Now that I have the setup mentioned above configured, Time Machine works but... now instead of creating folders under the Backups.backupdb folder it is doing a initial backup of everything and creating a .sparsebundle file.
I am not sure if this is working correctly? Have I configured it correctly?
Permission on the Lacie? I am also controlling the Mac mini using ARD.
Perhaps I should format the drive and start from scratch and identifying the Lacie 500GB as the Time Machine backup drive for the Macbook.
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Another question is of course the initial backup over wireless will be very slow but after that it should be quicker as only files that change are backed up correct?
Hope to have some feedback on this as I believe a lot of people are trying this setup as a workaround to not being able to backup to a Airport USB drive.
Macbook and Mac mini are both using latest Leopard with updates.

James I think what you've done is correct. The thing to be aware of is that TM backs up to a directly connected HD using a Folder and deposits data into this folder in Finder format making it easy to navigate. When TM backs up to your networked HD attached to the Mac mini as you've configured for your MacBook a sparsebundle disk image is created by TM.
Now when TM on the MacBook executes it will auto mount that sparsebundle disk image on the MacBook to perform the backup and then dismounts it.
If you invoke the TM browser on your MacBook while the TM backup is in progress the TM browser has something to work with and will display the TM history. If however, on your MacBook you launch the TM browser when the TM backup is not executing you will see no history. What you need to do is to mount that network Mac mini LaCie 500GB USB HD on your MacBook and I believe you can then see the TM history.
This is very similar to the AirDisk feature that Apple dropped off from the TM feature list just prior to Leopard GM release on Occ 26.
Now having said all that, I'm a little puzzled why the TM browser launched on the MacBook isn't auto mounting your backup volume (the LaCie USB HD) as this is clearly what's required. This maybe a bug that should be reported to Apple via their Feedback process.
Hopefully I've understood your configuration and what you've posted as an issue(s).

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UPDATE: I restarted it (Classic IT Crowd "Have you tried turning it off and on" moment) and the drive shows up on screen. Right now, I'm waiting for it to "Calculate disk size needed for restore" and I'll keep you posted.
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If you installed the Java runtime distributed by Apple and still need it, you'll have to reinstall it. The same goes for Xcode. All other data will be preserved.
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I don't know if this would make a difference or not, but you could try booting the iMac in FireWire Target Disk Mode.
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