How to Set up Hard Drive for OS X Leopard Time Machine

[tenestetubo]

thanks for the vid pretty straightforward my hat off for you. However I do have a question how do you set it up specifically to store and back up final cut projects only

[MewingFugur]

Lol, if you have a Mac and do Control-Option-Command-8, his screen will look fine

[migueford]

Dude, Im trying to set up time machine to a 138.1GB flash drive. I follow your instructions but after creating the partition the Time Machine window asking me whether I wanna use this disk to back up never comes up. Plus the partition goes back to its original name "disk2s2" and now it wont come up on my desktop. So I unplug it and plug it back in and says that it needs to be initialized. Im stuck dude, cant figure it out, do you know how to? God bless you.. Migue

[maggiedecker5]

@migueford I dont know if anyone has helped you but mine didnt either. So I right click the time machine icon and it gives you options. Pick back up or time machine preferences and you can finish the rest of the video!

[migueford]

@maggiedecker5 Not really! Thanks for your tip dude. However; I was told in a forum that Time Machine wont work with flash drives, no matter how big its capacity.

[19gregorx51]

This is bad. Very poor production in that the hand in the screen and holding up the props doesn't cut it. Chris you can do better!

[tapsyy]

Awesome - I find this very useful to help set up Time Machine on my WD External Hard Drive. Thanks!

[hvydrmmr1]

can i use my external 1TB drive for time machine on snow leopard andddddd just use it as a regular external drive in bootcamp for windows 7. or can i only us it for time machine when i set it up to do so please help

[breezebro]

Not this one?

"Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani?" ("My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?")

You're probably referring to H. G. Wells "Time Machine" where the Eloi were the good guys and the Morlocks were the evil guys who ate the Eloi.

[idphua]

great info

[damjanjelencic]

heh, your head... remove it

2:59

[WeWillTakeover]

Eloi is the one of the races in "The Time Machine"

[puffpowderchowder]

i used the orignial macintosh hard drive to set this up, and now my hardrive is scrwed and i cant use boot camp. i have to take it in. apple at this moment is really pissin me of

[montano171]

how can i make my external hardrive work it keep on saying it fails because i havent back up for 148 days

[geoarcai]

i have the same external drive

[lakerboy16]

how come when i hooked up my drive for time machine, it was not this in depth at all?,........

[mate2000]

Why are people chatting at the bottom of your video? It's like... where is that coming from??

[ShakeAndBakeGuy]

The design is so ugly.

[conkyjoe]

New to Time Machine. Where do I find "system directory" to add to "do not back up"? Unable to see on your video.

Thanks

[samboguitARecua]

time machine its only for mac leppard intel

[1337sweden]

How long can you backup(without system-files) before its full with your 500GB?

[Gagliano17]

Estimated Loss of Load (ELOL)

Impressed?

[MrMacgeek1]

how can I recover an Email?

[johnnyonthenet]

Launch mail, then launch time machine

[madmaddymanu]

if u deleted it u cant.!!!!

[Hunger4Power]

Eloi from the book Time Machine, sounds interesting... can u explain me more about what it is ??

[mariovo5]

Thanks Chris, You Are The Best At Explaining Things well To The YouTube Community. :D

[alexsouza1130]

In the year AD 802,701 humanity has evolved into two separate species: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are the spoiled, attractive of the two groups.......

[aussumpossom33]

i get half way through the time machine and it says error

[CoffeehouseSchmuck]

This was Genius Chris

(more at Wkipedia-i only have 500 characters to explain it here)

Eloi--from Wikipedia

In The Time Machine

In the year AD 802,701 humanity has evolved into two separate species: the Eloi and the Morlocks. The Eloi are the spoiled, attractive upper class, living in luxury on the surface of the earth, while the Morlocks live underground, tending machinery and providing food, clothing and infrastructure for the Eloi.

[zamilmattar]

i got the same external hard drive and i want to use it as a time machine hard disk for 2 computers (iMac and Macbook).. i notice there are two firewire ports at the back of the Maxtor onetouch 4plus, can it sync two computers simultaneously when plugged in??

[mrdarren5]

Hey Chris

Thanks for the video. I wanted to know how people connect there hard drive to the computer, then turn it on and hold down the option key, select their hard drive, and use their hard drive as a computer.

[ph03n1xcanada]

Isn't "eloi" one of two races in some old book "Time Machine" or something like that? Overheard it from people. Nerds have interesting conversations.

[trkllz]

Eloi is certainly one of the two races in "The Time Machine", this is those who live over the ground(if wikipedia is correct, that is...)

[simmonds06]

i love time machine !

[Josemedeiros]

Chris,

Nice Job on this video. Now I know where to send some one to find an instructional video, when Mac users are having issue's with Time Machine and I don't have the time to help them myself.

Jose Medeiros , San Jose, CA

[Btroisi13]

Dang! All this work for Time Machine? Well the video from Apple used a drive with Apple premade settings....

MBR should work fine. As well as the FAT file system. But the things mentioned here should be used just for maximum compatibility!

[rml695]

My guess is that if I wanted to upgrade my MacBook's hard disk in the future to one of bigger capacity, then I would have to go ahead and back up system files to restore my Mac from a Time Machine backup correct? I'm pretty sure I know the answer already (which is yes) but I wanted to be sure.

[1stPlaceDirector]

Hello, LaCie makes Firewire 800 drives. I have one, so I know they do. It has all the interfaces (USB2, 400, 800, etc). Mine is 320GB, by the way.

[tomomersey]

love time machine

and chris's hands the way they move

[Seanuk]

eloi and the morlocks

[jetsandmets93]

hey, good vid - one question when you partition it, arent you re-earasing what you jsut did (when you earased and set it to mac os extended journel) or does it stay at the new formatted format. Also why do you need to partion it and not just leave it at just reformating it to mac os extended jounel

[cober155]

I don't get what his doing its confusing.

[McCorrupt]

iamanorange: He tell you at 05:46. Chris reverse the color scheme or a better overview.

[iamanorange]

why does he use negative?

[hotmjkluio789]

I have my 500GB WD My Book external hard drive hooked up to my server. My server uses it directly and my 4 other macs use it wirelessly over the network by mounting sparse disk image bundles that are on the time machine drive.

[hotmjkluio789]

What a bunch of unnecessary work! The hard drive does NOT have to be GUID, mine is set as a master boot record and it works perfectly. you do not need to change the partition scheme to be 1 partition. The only step I would recommend is reformatting the drive as mac os extended journaled and renaming your drive at that time, but it is not needed if you dont want/know how to do that. Just plug it in and answer yes when it asks if you want it to be used for time machine, thats it.

[micsowsow]

if you ur on a mac and you invert you color his screen looks normal =P

[funnyent]

i love time machine

[gal04]

leopard is $150. I bought the retail copy and did not pirate for the reason that Time Machine alone is worth more than $150 if it helps in time of need.......That and it was hard to come by pirated, LOL

[gal04]

I named mine flux capacitor

[splatula]

Uh... just partition GUID, don't bother formatting beforehand as it does the job during partitioning.

[hereiam355]

ELOI!!!!!!!!! the little people in the original book, Time Machine. Hilarious, Chris

[RaigyCar85]

Thanks for this video Chris, it helped me prepare my external hard drive for Time Machine!

[s0ccurpr02]

Haven;t upgraded to leopard yet but from what i've seen doesn't it ask automatically when you plug in the firewire if you want to use it? Anyway i love the inverse color effect! I love this stuff so much (yes youd never guess from watchin my vids but i'm a huge geek with comps)

[Mikola2385]

If someone can help me out I would Appreciate it.

[Mikola2385]

I want to build my computer so it can run games to the highest Performance, highest graphics, I dont care about price. I know I need a 768mb graphics card, and at least 2gb of ram. But how about Processor, Dose a Processor have anything to do with the performance of a game? And if so what is the top of the line best Processor for a playing games? Also dose the motherboard have anything to do with performance? Or anything else? And what is an Optical Drive, and hard disc?

[gal04]

Sounds like you need a macbook pro or new imac G5.

[gr1moire2112]

Eloi and the Morlocks from The Time Machine by Wells. Elois were the upper class race.

[iCHAINSAW]

you beat me to it.

[Brian7490]

The time machine is a novel that was turned into many movies, tv shows, comic books, etc. When chris names his drive eloi, he is refering to the simple humans in that novel. There ya go

[iCHAINSAW]

you can read wikipedia...good job.

[letsgetsomeshoes1239]

This comment sucks.

[Glendale1901]

lmao at 3:32 you can hear the cell phone interference LOL.. my computer speakers pick it up all the time.

[rml695]

I'm a major Mac nut, as well as a recent Linux convert (LOL), but I'm surprised that Time Machine would have so many cautions. I mean I understand why they would, but it just made things (at least for me) a wee bit more complicated. I'm definitely putting this video in my favorites for later use. What's the word on running Leopard on G4 machines? I was told that it would be incredibly sluggish.

[geofones]

Doesn't seem to work backing up over a network :-(

[sonoftardis]

Works fine over my network. What's it doing to you?

[alwaysmc2]

I'm not trying to be smug or anything, but in Vista it just works. It's enabled by default, and doesn't take up the whole screen to restore a file.

[koukijin]

The Eloi are one of the two post-human races in H. G. Wells' 1895 novel The Time Machine.

[kodeyboudreau]

please send me a new pc

[kodeyboudreau]

wow i have 55 gigs 256 ram and a pentium 3 290 mhz

[Shatonmedeek]

holy crap. get some new hardware.

[josh198869]

so this is going to sound stupid but is this kind of like system restore for windows but for a mac ? i no nothing about a mac thats why im asking lol

[alwaysmc2]

My understanding is that it's system restore, but only on a secondary hard drive. System Restore in Windows backs up the files on the same drive, which is nice because that means it can (and is) enabled by default. That also means that it works all the time on mobile computers that can't have an external hard drive connected all the time.

[erickj92]

finally chris!! i havent been very interested in your videos lately, but this was a good one!

[pjalm123]

You can setup Timemachine with an internal hard drive or even a seperate partition as well.

[jorowi]

Yes, I did it today to a 2nd partition on my Macbook. Check out the video in my channel.

[FearedBliss]

Lol Time Machine was a good movie, but they get owned :D.

[camarojay007]

hopefully your not just going to do MAC vids now . if so have a nice life. subscribe to get useful info not candy mac info ...

[Zer0small]

Apple >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Microsoft

[xox1011]

Eloi are the future people from the the movie "Time Machine" So it is very fitting for a drive to be used with Time Machine

[IceflowStudios]

I have to say. I've only need using Leopard for about a week and I've had to use Time Machine twice and I'm SO happy it's there. This is an incredible feature. Worth the $129!

[FirebrandNIRE]

big buzz regarding one feature?? only Time Machine?

Oh come on!!

Dude what planet are you on?

[emeek77]

shapeshifter screwed my mac all up. it dont recommend it. some have no problems but your taking a chance.

[isakt04a]

chris i am not geek but i just want to be like you men. you rocks.

[RychenCop]

Great video dude!!! Thanks.

[FR4NCH1SE]

chris you rock dude!!!

[roger767]

I thought apple was easy, How come its so convoluted to install the drive.

[JoshSwannack]

I have the ST9160823AS In my Dell Vostro 1500, It's a Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD @ 160GB with a mazimum transfer rate of 59mb/s. Apple DON'T use special hardware!!

[emeek77]

OWC Mercury Elite ProAL. FW80. its awsome.

[pcperini]

Eloi is a reference to H.G. Well's Time Machine. Good one, Chris!

[pcperini]

Is there a minimum recommended size for your external HDD for Time Drive? What is it?

[jerrry13157]

It has to be bigger then your internal hdd, apple recommends twice as big, but if your internal is lets say 200gb, and you plug in a 250, you will be able to use time machine.

[emeek77]

mine are both the same size and it works fine

[jerrry13157]

well then if it works, then why are you asking the question in the first place? -_-

[TheGnomeLocker]

Eloi was the name of the peaceful folk of the future. The traveler met a lovely girl named Weena of the Eloi, a very good book, and a very informative video.

Then you had the Mozark's I think they were, which were the evil being's.

[DMXell]

I have my Time Machine partitioned as a Master Boot Record. What's the difference?

[kwapaz]

eloi are two types of human races in the book "time machine" lol pretty good video

[teekeegod]

Actually its one of the races. Morlocks are the other.

[TheGnomeLocker]

You are correct, it was the Morlocks.

[simonodell]

bah beaten too it :)

[kwapaz]

haha lol soz for the mistake it was a quick google search lol