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Retrieving Backed-Up Items, Open Time Machine Preferences, Starting a Backup, Back Up Now

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MY BOOK LIVE USER MANUAL To see information such as available capacity and the date and time of the oldest, latest, and next backup, select Open Time Machine Preferences on the Time Machine drop-down menu: Starting a Backup To start a backup at any time, select Back Up Now on the drop-down menu: Note: To delete Time Machine backups, use the My Book Live dashboard. (See "Backing Up a My Book Live Drive With Safepoints" on page 85.) Retrieving Backed-Up Items You may sometimes want to retrieve files and other items backed up on the My Book Live drive. For example, you may have lost a file, or you want to see files from a week ago. You can retrieve individual items, multiple items, shares, or if your system crashes, your entire hard drive. To retrieve backed-up items to your hard drive: 1. Open the window on your computer where you want the item restored. For example, if you are retrieved a document, open the Documents folder. (If you are restoring an item on your desktop, you do not need to open a window.) BACKING UP AND RETRIEVING YOUR COMPUTER FILES - 42

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MY BOOK LIVE
USER MANUAL
BACKING UP AND RETRIEVING YOUR COMPUTER FILES
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To see information such as available capacity and the date and time of the
oldest, latest, and next backup, select
Open Time Machine Preferences
on
the Time Machine drop-down menu:
Starting a Backup
To start a backup at any time, select
Back Up Now
on the drop-down menu:
Note: To delete Time Machine backups, use the My Book Live dashboard. (See
“Backing Up a My Book Live Drive With Safepoints” on page 85.)
Retrieving Backed-Up Items
You may sometimes want to retrieve files and other items backed up on the
My Book Live drive. For example, you may have lost a file, or you want to see files
from a week ago. You can retrieve individual items, multiple items, shares, or if your
system crashes, your entire hard drive.
To retrieve backed-up items to your hard drive:
1.
Open the window on your computer where you want the item restored. For
example, if you are retrieved a document, open the Documents folder. (If you
are restoring an item on your desktop, you do not need to open a window.)