Time machine normally does its thing in the background. If you want to do a 
full system backup that will be bootable, you need a program such as carbon 
copy cloner or super duper.
On Apr 2, 2011, at 3:05 PM, Laura Bratton wrote:

> HI All,
> Last week I got an external hard drive. I was able to perform the first 
> backup just fine. 
> Now I want to perform another backup since it has been a week. I am not able 
> to do this though. I connected the external drive to my mac and then opened 
> timeMachine. Nothing happened when I opened time-machine. What am I doing 
> wrong? any help would be appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Laura 
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