
Your first backup may take a while, depending on how many files you have on your startup disk.
Select the option to Encrypt Backups if you want to prevent other users from accessing your backup without a password.īacking up happens automatically when your Time Machine drive is available. From the sheet that appears, select the AirPort Time Capsule you want to use as your backup destination. Open Time Machine preferences and click Select Disk.
If you haven’t already specified a backup device, Time Machine asks you when you connect a blank drive to your Mac if you want to use it for backing up. Setting up Time Machine is as simple as connecting an external drive to your Mac. The oldest backups are deleted when your backup drive becomes full. Time Machine keeps hourly backups for the past 24 hours, daily backups for the past month, and weekly backups. an AirPort Time Capsule or OS X Server on your network.an external hard drive (sold separately) connected to the USB port of an AirPort Extreme 802.11ac.
an external hard drive (sold separately) connected to a USB, FireWire, or ThunderBolt port on your Mac. Set Up Time Machineīefore you can use Time Machine, you need to select a backup destination. It keeps a copy of all your files, and remembers how your system looked on any given day so you can revisit your Mac as it appeared in the past. Time Machine is the built-in backup feature of OS X.