

At this point the Backup Disk is selected and the next Time Machine Backup will start in 120 Seconds (2 Minutes)Įxcluding items from Time Machine backup plan ( Options): Select a drive and click on the Use Disk button.A window opens showing External Storage Drives connected to your Mac To open System Preferences - Click on the Apple icon > System Preferences Click Done, the backup will start in 60 seconds.If encrypting the drive, enter the password.

To open System Settings - Click on the Apple icon > System Settings Setting up the external drive to be used with Time Machine: Use this link for instructions on formatting your drive For macOS versions for 10.6 (Snow Leopard) to 10.15 (Catalina) use Mac OS Extended (Journaled) also referred to as HFS+ when setting up a new backup.For Big Sur and later, use Apple File System (APFS) when setting up a new backup.MacOS requires that a drive be formatted with a specific file system to be used with Time Machine Formatting a drive to be used with Time Machine:
