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Time Machine

Time Machine works only on Mac computers. It automatically backs up everything on your

computer to a USB hard drive that is connected to the Mac.

Set Up Time Machine

If you are already using Time Machine software with your USB hard drive, you can skip the

set up and go directly to the following section,

Access the Connected USB Hard Drive

.



To set up Time Machine:

1.

Physically connect the USB hard drive to your Mac.

2.

On your Mac, go to the magnifying glass at the top right of the desktop, and search for

disk

utility

.

3.

Open the disk utility and format your drive, as shown here.

The router supports GUID and MBR partitions only. To see how to change the partition

scheme, see

Change the Partition Scheme

on page

60.

You can now use Time Machine wirelessly by connecting the USB hard drive to your C router.

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Access the Connected USB Hard Drive

After the initial set up explained in the previous section, you can access the connected USB

hard drive from your Mac.



To access the drive with Time Machine:

1.

From your Mac, open Macintosh HD.

2.

From SHARED, click

WNDR4500

.

3.

Click the

Connect As

button in the upper right corner.

4.

In the pop-up window, select

Registered User

, and enter

admin

as the user name and

password

as the password. Click

Connect

.

•

After connecting successfully, you can list your connected devices. One extra device,

called

admin

, displays whenever you log in as

admin

.

•

If you are backing up a large amount of data, see

Before You Back Up a Large

Amount of Data

on page

58.

5.

From the Apple menu, select

System Preferences

. Open Time Machine. Click

Select Disk

and select the backup disk. Click the

Use for Backup

button to complete your selection.

If you do not see the USB partition that you want to use for backup in the Time Machine

disk list, go to MAC finder, and click that USB partition. Then that device displays in the

Time Machine list.

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You are prompted to log in.

Show Time Machine status in the menu bar

Click the lock to prevent further changes.

Time Machine

Time Machine

Show All

your music, pictures, and other inportant files. Since Time

Machine keeps daily backups, you can revisit your Mac as it

appeared in the past.

Time Machine

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our music

,

p

ictures

,

and other in

p

ortant files

.

Since Time

Machine keeps daily backups, you can revisit your Mac as it

Enter your name and password for the server

“WNDR4500” so that Time Machine can access it.

Connect as:

Name:

Guest

Registered User

Password:

admin

Cancel

Connect

6.

Enter the password (the same one you use to log in to the router as admin), and backup

begins.

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Disconnect

WNDR4500

Connected as: admin

admin

S_Drive

T_Drive

USB_Storage

Before You Back Up a Large Amount of Data

Before you back up a large amount of data with Time Machine, NETGEAR recommends that

you do the following to ensure a successful operation:

1.

Upgrade the operating system of the Mac machine.

2.

Verify and repair the backup disk and the local disk.

3.

Verify and repair the permissions on the local disk.

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4.

Set Energy Saver.

a.

From the Apple menu, select

System Preferences

.

b.

From the View menu, select

Energy Saver

.

c.

On the Energy Saver screen, select

Wake for Ethernet network access

.

d.

Click the back arrow to exit this screen. Your changes are saved.

5.

Modify your security settings.

a.

From the Apple menu, select

System Preferences

.

b.

From the View menu, select

Security

.

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c.

On the Security screen, leave the

Log out after minutes of inactivity

check box

cleared

(not selected).

Change the Partition Scheme

To run with the router, the partition scheme on your Mac has to be set to either GUID or MBR.



To make sure that the partition scheme is set to one of these supported schemes:

1.

Open the disk utility and select your USB drive.

2.

Select the

Partition

tab.