Skip to Main Content
OS X Mountain Lion: Visual QuickStart Guide
book

OS X Mountain Lion: Visual QuickStart Guide

by Maria Langer
September 2012
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
648 pages
22h 8m
English
Peachpit Press
Content preview from OS X Mountain Lion: Visual QuickStart Guide

9. Backup & Recovery Features

One of the most important things you can do to protect the applications and data on your computer’s hard disk is to periodically back it up onto another device or media. OS X includes Time Machine, an application that can automate the backup process and make it easy to restore files that have been damaged or accidentally erased.

In the event that your computer’s startup disk has serious problems, OS X has a feature that can really help: the recovery partition. It makes it possible for you to get a sick Mac started and troubleshoot its problems.

This chapter looks at both of these features and provides some tips for backing up your important data files. ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Mac OS X Lion: Visual QuickStart Guide

Mac OS X Lion: Visual QuickStart Guide

Maria Langer

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780133088090Purchase book