Q: Have MacPro early 2009 4.1 using OS X Yosemite. Want to reinstall original software-concerned due to 2009 and now 2015 with update ... Have MacPro early 2009 4.1 using OS X Yosemite. Want to reinstall original software-concerned due to 2009 and now 2015 with updates of software. more
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Mar 14, 2015 6:50 PM in response to bzitkusby Grant Bennet-Alder,One way to save your files without manually making multiple copies of things is to use Time Machine, included with Mac OS X. You give it a drive 3x or more the size of what you want to back up, and it just takes care of it. The first backup can take a few hours, but after that it does incremental Backups, quietly in the background about once an hour. It does not interrupt your work or make your Mac slow.
Time Machine is not the world's best Backup solution for every situation. It is a "pretty good" backup system that is the one that always gets done, because it happens automatically, without your intervention. All you have to do is check it from time-to-time to make sure it did not get "stuck".
The late James Pond wrote an entire web site of accessible, illustrated guides to how Time Machine works, along with other Mac OS X tips. You can access them all from its main page: