Western Digital My Passport Pro, 2TB User Manual download pdf (Page 17)

MY PASSPORT PRO

USER MANUAL

MANAGING AND CUSTOMIZING YOUR MY PASSPORT PRO DEVICE – 14

8. The first time you configure to a new volume, a message asks if you want to use the

device drives to back up with Time Machine:

Note: The Encrypt Backup Disk check box does not appear on computers using

the Snow Leopard operating system. If you selected the Stripe or Mirror

option at step 4 on page page 12, DO NOT select this check box on Lion,

Mountain Lion, or Mavericks systems. Your My Passport Pro device

leverages the operating system to enable RAID configurations. The RAID

modes of your My Passport Pro device are software configured, and the

backup disk encryption feature is not compatible with software-configured

RAID devices.

 If you want to use the Time Machine backup software, then for:

- A RAID volume, click Use as Backup Disk and skip to step 10 on page 15.

- An individual drive volume, proceed to step 9.

 If you do not want to use the Time Machine backup software, click:

- Don’t Use on Lion, Mountain Lion, or Mavericks

- Cancel on Snow Leopard

Skip to step 11 on page 15.

9. To use an individual drive as a backup disk with Time Machine (in HFS+J only):

a. Select the volume that you want to use:

 My Passport Pro - A

 My Passport Pro - B

New Mirror Volume

New Stripe Volume

New Individual Drives Volumes

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