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Starting with Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard), Macs come with a built-in backup system called "Time Machine. The first time you hook up an external hard drive, your Mac will ask you if you want to use it as a backup volume. If you click the "yes" button, you've started a backup that will backup your whole machine. Then every hour it will look for new or changed files and add them to the backup.

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