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- locate and launch the installed UTBackup client by double clicking the house icon as indicated in wiki article Installing UTBackup - Mac
- The First name and Last name fields can be left blank.
- Enter your UT EID in the Username field then enter your UT EID password in the last two fields and click Create Account
- Open the UTBackup Crash Plan client, log in with your UT EID and password
- Select the Backup tab
- Navigate to the Files to Back Up section and click Change... to open the window for selecting files and folders.
- In the Change File Selection window the Mac's hard drive will be listed, click the triangle to the left of the hard drive icon and expand the file structure.
- To back up your User Profile folder, click the triangle to the left of Users and expand the contents.
- Locate your User home folder, this folder may be named with your UT EID or by another name if you are logging in with a local account.
- Clicking the box to the left of your User folder will select the entire contents of that folder for backup.
- Clicking the arrow next to your User folder will expand the list of sub-folders which allows cafeteria style selection of which folders are to be backed up.
- For example, you may want to only back up your Documents folder. This is accomplished by specifically clicking the box to the left of the Documents folder.
- If you were to click the triangle to the left of Documents you would see that the entire contents of this folder is selected for back up.
- Certain files or folders from selected directories may also be excluded from the backup by clearing the check mark to the left of each of those folders.
- After file and folder selections are complete, click Save.
- The files and folders you chose to back up will show up listed under Files to Back Up.
- Click the "Start Backup" button to begin..