I am an Apple novice and need to know how to back up my programs on MB Pro - Lion

I know how to back up programs on PC, but am new to Mac and would like some advice about how to best back up programs on my Macbook Pro (purchased second hand) without disks. Thank you in advance

If you purchased a MacBook Pro secondhand and it came with third-party software on it, note that you do not own that software without disks. It is illegal for you to use that software. If some of that software is useful to you, you should buy copies of it so that you can use it legally, and so that you can reinstall it should the need ever arise. (Note that there is no way to reliably reinstall copy software from a backup in the event of needing to do a clean reinstall. You would need the disks so you could do a clean reinstall of the apps as well.)
Also, note that the very first thing you should do with a secondhand machine is erase the hard drive and reinstall the system from scratch. You don't know what the original owner has done with that machine, and there could be malware on it. You should never trust a system from an unknown party.

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