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Real World Mac Maintenance and Backups

Joe Kissell

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Real World Mac Maintenance and Backups is published in association with Take Control Books and was originally published by Take Control Books as Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac (ISBN 1-933671-10-6) and Take Control of Mac OS X Backups (ISBN 0-9759503-0-4), both by Joe Kissell and copyright © 2006 by Joe Kissell. Learn more about Take Control at www.takecontrolbooks.com.

Copyright © 2007 by TidBITS Electronic Publishing and Joe Kissell

Editors: Jeff Carlson and Caroline Rose
Project Managers: Tonya Engst and Adam Engst
Production Editor: Susan Rimerman
Tech Editor: Take Control authors and the TidBITS Irregulars
Proofreader: Clark Humphrey
Compositor: Jeff Tolbert
Indexer: Rebecca Plunkett
Cover design: Aren Howell
Cover illustration: Alicia Buelow

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