{"id":19826,"date":"2016-01-30T03:01:40","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T17:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=19826"},"modified":"2024-10-22T08:38:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T22:38:52","slug":"time-machine-backup-and-disk-utility-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/time-machine-backup-and-disk-utility-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Time Machine Backup and Disk Utility Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Time Machine Backup and Disk Utility Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Yesterday was backup day on this MacBook Pro, but this time it is a full backup day. We’re trying out a backup media whose maker we used before, Seagate, but a different product, namely Seagate Wireless<\/i><\/a>, though we opted today for the external media via (ubiquitous) black lead … aren’t leads wonderful?! “Wake me up from this non-Wireless dream!”<\/p>\n

Anyway, it wasn’t an “out of the box” experience, now wouldn’t it be?! But it would be for your Windows users, and it’s not that we’re complaining … far from it … but it did bring about the need to use a Mac OS X utility we generally try to avoid … Disk Utility<\/a>. In our books, things have come “to a pretty pass<\/a>” when you need Disk Utility, but then to calm the nerves … how long ago were we all going format a:<\/i> (or even that old favourite format b:<\/i> at the drop of a (Melbourne Cup) hat) … around about the same time they adjust interest rates … but we digress.<\/p>\n

46 years<\/font> … oh, right then … that long ago … well … hasn’t time flown?!<\/p>\n

And so that is the bullet we had to bite to get over doubts in our mind over getting the Mac OS X Time Machine<\/a> backup working with the Seagate Wireless and the MacBook Pro using Mac OS X … and we ventured in this direction not by reading the product instructions (who does that?! … this comment is unsponsored and completely out of order<\/font>), but advice on the net, usually, from forums. But actually there is credence in my attitude … after all, after the product release, who uses these products and has problems or not … users<\/a> … so thanks to all those contributors to forums and blogs … keep those cards and letters rolling in<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Once we …<\/p>\n