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Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac, 3rd Edition
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Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac, 3rd Edition

by Joe Kissell
January 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
116 pages
2h 36m
English
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Perform Daily Tasks

If you performed all the preliminary steps in Start on the Right Foot, your daily maintenance ritual consists of at most three tasks, and at best, none! How much you’ll need to do each day depends on the decisions you made in the Start on the Right Foot chapter.

Update Your Versioned Backup

One important component of the backup strategy I recommend (refer back to Set Up a Backup System) is versioned backups. This means that after your first full backup, each successive backup copies only those files (or portions thereof) that are new, or have changed, since the previous time. And it keeps the previous copies of the files, so you can go back to an earlier version if you accidentally modify a file you shouldn’t have changed ...

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