Use Other Versioned Backup Software

If you’ve decided to create versioned backups using an app other than (or in addition to) Time Machine, set that up now. I wish I could give you step-by-step instructions for using each one of those apps, but that would take too many pages (and you can read the app’s documentation for help). Instead, I want to give you a few tips for each of several good choices, all of which I mentioned back in Choose Another Versioned Backup App. Although I’ve used and can recommend each of the apps I mention here, I don’t pretend that this is an exhaustive list. There are many other excellent options, and you can read about them in the online appendixes.

Later in the chapter, I also give several general pointers about things ...

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