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Welcome to Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac, Third Edition, version 3.1, published in January 2019 by alt concepts inc. This book was written by Joe Kissell and edited by Caroline Rose.

The data on every Mac should be backed up to protect against theft, hardware failure, user error, and other catastrophes. This book helps you design a sensible backup strategy, choose and configure the best backup hardware and software for your needs, and understand how to make your backups as painless as possible.

If you want to share this ebook with a friend, we ask that you do so as you would with a physical book: “lend” it for a quick look, but ask your friend to buy a copy for careful reading or reference. Discounted classroom and Mac user group copies are available.

Copyright © 2019, alt concepts inc. All rights reserved.

Updates and More

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  • Download any available new version of the ebook for free, or buy any subsequent edition at a discount.

  • Download various formats, including PDF, EPUB, and Mobipocket. (Learn about reading on mobile devices on our Device Advice page.)

  • Read the ebook’s blog. You may find new tips or information, as well as a link to an author interview.

If you bought this ebook from the Take Control website, it has been added to your account, where you can download it in other formats and access any future updates. However, if you bought this ebook elsewhere, you can add it to your account manually; see Ebook Extras.

Basics

To review background information that might help you understand this book better, such as finding System Preferences and working with files in the Finder, I recommend reading Tonya Engst’s ebook Take Control of Mac Basics.

In this book, when I use the term disk by itself, I generally mean your Mac’s primary internal storage device—whether that’s a mechanical hard drive, an SSD, or other solid-state storage. (Apple, after all, still uses the term “Macintosh HD” as the default name for your Mac’s startup volume, even when it’s not stored on a hard disk.) A drive is a physical device for storing data; a single drive can comprise one or more volumes, or logical storage devices. The volume that contains the copy of macOS currently used to boot your Mac is your startup volume. I’ll specify hard drive when I need to talk specifically about the little boxes with spinning platters.

What’s New in Version 3.1

Version 3.1 is a minor revision that brings this book up to date with macOS 10.14 Mojave and various changes in hardware and software. Along with numerous small edits, this version contains the following significant changes:

What Was New in the Third Edition

The book you’re now reading has a long and complex history, having gone through various title changes, splits, and merges stretching all the way back to 2004—and the third edition of this book (version 3.0) represented not only a change in its version number but also in its title. This book’s most recent ancestor in the Take Control series was Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac, Second Edition, which was published in November 2014. I subsequently acquired publication rights to the book, updated it significantly, and rereleased it with a new title (Backing Up Your Mac: A Joe On Tech Guide) in May 2015. The second edition of that title appeared in June 2016, followed by a version 2.1 update in September 2016.

After I purchased Take Control Books from TidBITS Publishing Inc. in May 2017, I decided to bring this book back under the Take Control umbrella. That meant reverting to its previous title and incrementing the edition number by one (even though there were, in effect, two editions of the book between the second and third).

It would take many pages to detail the differences in each iteration of the book (and the third edition alone contains hundreds of changes), but here are the most significant changes since Backing Up Your Mac: A Joe On Tech Guide, version 2.1:

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