Time Machine is a great utility for the Mac. And it really should be taken advantage of. For me, I learned my lesson when my computer crashed a year ago. I knew that I had to start backing up my data. I looked at a lot of options, but none really made more sense to me than using Time Machine and an external drive. Being that I already had the two, this was the most cost effective for me. Let me show you how this works. One thing to note, is that you want to make sure that you have an external drive that is compatible with Time Machine. Not every external hard drive is. Most are though. I use a Western Digital external drive for the Mac and it is Time Machine compatible.
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You should have a Time Machine icon in your menubar. If you don’t, you can always go to the Apple logo in the top left corner and click on it, then click on System Preferences. Here you will find Time Machine and click on it there. Adwaremedic for mac free download. If you do find it in your menubar, click on it, then click on “Open Time Machine Preferences.”
Here you will be able to set up your Time Machine and your external drive. First, make sure your external drive is hooked into your Mac and that your Mac recognizes it. Then, you are going to want to click the Time Machine “on”. After this you are going to want to click on “Select Disk.”
Here you will be provided with a menu that shows the list of available drives that you can use Time Machine with. You will want to select your external drive. As you can see from the picture below I have a 1TB external drive as well as a Time Capsule that I can use.
After you select your drive, click “Use for Backup.” Then, you are all set to go. Time Machine will now use your external drive to do automatic backups. The first backup will take a while, depending on your internet connection. This is typical as there is a lot of data to backup on the first backup.
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Hello Moeller1983 and welcome to Apple Support Communities.
I see you have a question about hard drive activity (specifically with the drive spinning) when Time Machine does not appear to be running.
Captura pantalla mac catalina. It's important to keep in mind that there are Time Machine tasks that are not specifically backing up. This would include things such as identifying older backups which can be deleted if the drive is starting to get low on space.
If you want to get a snapshot of all the processes underway at any time on your Mac, you can get that via the Console app.