Apple Macintosh Performa 6100 Series - Manual (Page 49)

Hiding and showing windows on the desktop
You can hide all windows except those of the active program by choosing
Hide Others from the Application menu.
The other programs remain open even though their windows are hidden.
When you switch to another program, its windows become visible again.
If you want to see all the open windows, choose Show All from the
Application menu.
Protecting the information on a disk
If you had a valuable document such as a birth certificate, you’d probably
make an extra copy of it for safekeeping. Similarly, you should make a copy of
the documents you create on your computer. The extra copy is called a
backup, and the process of making the copy is called backing up.
Once you have a backup, you’re protected from accidentally losing the
information on your hard disk. In the unlikely event that something happens
to your hard disk, you can easily get the information back.
Your computer’s hard disk comes with a lot of valuable information already
stored on it, including system software and some application programs. The
Macintosh Performa CD contains a backup copy of all the system software and
application programs that came with your computer. See Chapter 5,
“Troubleshooting,” for instructions on using the CD to reinstall software.
You should regularly make backup copies of the documents you create. To make a
backup copy of the work you store on your hard disk, drag the icons for
individual files or for whole folders to the icon of another disk. You can back
up the contents of an entire floppy disk by dragging its icon to another floppy
disk or hard disk icon.
You can also purchase a backup program with additional features that make
copying faster. For example, some programs have a feature that lets you copy
only the new and changed information on your hard disk.
Your computer comes with two programs, Apple Backup and Apple Restore,
which you can use to make a set of backup floppies containing the contents of
your entire hard disk. See the following sections for instructions on using
Apple Backup and Apple Restore.
39 Using Programs and Backing Up Disks