Discovering Time Machine
One of the Mountain Lion features that Apple is most proud of — and rightly so — is Time Machine. Oh, there have been backup utilities out there made by third-party companies (even a few good ones), but Apple has delivered something above and beyond in terms of simplicity and information retrieval.
Time Machine backs up your system behind the scenes — you can work while it handles its business undetected in the background. The initial backup takes quite a while, as Time Machine backs up everything on the Mac hard drive (again, it all happens in the background, so you can continue to use your Mac). After the initial backup, Time Machine continues to automatically back up your files every hour, but only those items that have changed. Because it is only backing up changed items, these backups are performed much faster.
Why it’s important to back up your files
I want to take a small section of this chapter to preach the doctrine of backing up your computer. You have too many precious memories ...
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