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October 27, 2007 7:51 AM PDT

Digital Home Leopard coverage: Time Machine

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Last night, I finally got around to hooking up my external hard drive and started using Time Machine. And while I had hoped for a bit more options, it's one of the nicest additions to Leopard.

By default, Time Machine is set to off. But as soon as you hook up an external hard drive and flip the Time Machine switch on in the new System Preferences pane, the system will start backing up your hard drive in twenty minutes after you first set it up.

Topics:: Digital Home,; Reviews

Tags:: Mac OS X,; Leopard,; Time Machine

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