<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">From: "Brian Durant" <<a href="mailto:globetrotterdk@gmail.com">globetrotterdk@gmail.com</a>><br><br>As a new Leopard user (10.5.5), I have been trying to find out exactly what<br>Time Machine can backup.</span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It backs up everything -- EVERYTHING -- on your boot drive.</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; ">I would also appreciate a link to a "HowTo" in<br>how to use Time Machine (backup strategies).</span></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>There's no "how-to" because there's no "how."</div><div><br></div><div>You don't do anything apart from connect an external drive to your Mac, tell Time Machine (when it asks) that you want to use that drive for your Time Machine backups, and ... there's no step three. TM will make a backup of the entire drive (it takes a while, the first time) and then after that will update the drive hourly with any new info you've put on it. You don't need to do anything.</div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Cheers</div><div>Chas</div><div><br></div><div>My 80s music podcast! <a href="http://www.crustyoldwave.com">http://www.crustyoldwave.com</a></div></div></div></span> </div><br></body></html>