Hardware Reference
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Configure Time Machine Backups
One of the most crucial Mac Pro maintenance chores is to configure your system to make
regular backups of your files. Mac Pros are reliable machines, but they can crash; and all
hard drives eventually die, so at some point your data will be at risk. To avoid losing that data
forever, you need to configure Time Machine to perform regular backups.
To use Time Machine, your Mac Pro requires a second hard drive.
Configure Time Machine Backups
Configure Backups Automatically
Connect an external USB or Thunderbolt hard drive to your Mac Pro.
OS X asks if you want to use the hard drive as your backup disk.
Click
Use as Backup Disk
.
Note:
If OS X does not ask to use the hard drive, continue with the following steps.
Configure Backups Manually
