You need to choose in time machine preferences your new disk, and the time machine will do the rest. Find your time machine in either system preferences or on your menu activated with control+f8.
Best of luck Simon On 6 Jul 2012, at 17:44, Stacey Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > I will be getting a drive later today for the purposes of backing up my > system. > It is a firewire drive and already formatted for my mac. > After hooking up the drive, how > do I back up my system with timemachine. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
