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MACBOOK: Time Machine Backup to external USB Hard Drive.

Asked by pacumming in Apple Operating Systems, Snow Leopard (OS 10.6), Mac OS X, Apple Software

Tags: Mac time machine backup external drive

My girlfriends daughter is away at college with her Macbook. She has a USB thumb drive to copy critical files (school work) to as needed. I bought her a 1TB WD external USB hard drive.
She has formatted the external drive properly for use with the MAC (I sent her instructions I found on the Web).
She set up Time Machine on her Macbook and it backed up an image of her entire drive.
(Note I am a Windows guy and not a MAC owner at this time).

After it was done she shut down Time Machine (prob did not turn it off-not sure) and unplugged the hard drive.

What are the steps necessary (step by step, options to select, keep TM all time, turn off when done, etc..) for me to tell her regarding plugging in the external drive weekly and letting Time Machine perform an incremental backup?

She does not want to keep the hard drive plugged in 100% of the time to perform a backup of changed files.

Thanks so much for a detailed and accurate answer form experience.

Sincerely
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