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Product Overview
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Customized Plans
If you want to go beyond the preset backup plans, it’s easy to customize a preset plan
or create your own from scratch. You can create as many di∂ erent plans as you want.
Each backup plan consists of the following:
• A list of fi les you want to protect
• A destination for copying the fi les (such as a hard drive, CDs or DVDs, iDisk, and so on)
• A schedule for the automatic backup
Choosing fi les for backup protection
When you create a backup plan, you can select fi les in one of four ways:
• QuickPicks, which let you select fi les by document type—for example, all of your
Pages fi les, Keynote fi les, or Mail messages
• Traditional fi le and folder navigation
• Dragging fi les from the desktop
• Spotlight searches (Tiger users only)
Flexible choices for schedules and destinations
Set a schedule and destination for each backup plan you create. For example, you
may want to back up work fi les every day to your iPod, but back up your photos once
a month to a DVD. Or you may want to back up your important fi nancial fi les weekly
to your iDisk and monthly to an external hard drive.
You can easily monitor and modify any plan using a window that summarizes all of
your plans, including fi les, destinations, and schedules. This window also shows the
status of recent backups, as well as the time your next backup is scheduled to run.