[GNC] New PC

[David Cousens]

Michael,
Sorry my bad on the BSD Unix as the base for Macs OS

My NAS does periodic full backups and daily incrementals so the slowly changing
stuff doesn't get backed up all that often. My laptop is also synced to my
desktop before and after I take it away from home which provides one of the
additional backups and again that is only copying changed files between the two.

David

On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 22:08 -0500, Michael or Penny Novack wrote:
> On 12/16/2022 8:23 PM, David Cousens wrote:
> > Agree that it would be ideal to have a single user directory but
> > unfortunately
> > the different OS's have different requirements and conventions and they also
> > vary somewhat between various Linux distributions. It would not be too hard
> > to
> > create a Linux bash script that could pack all the files on one computer
> > into a
> > zip with a corresponding unpack on another Linux machine, but Linux to
> > Windows
> > is likely to be more complex with the registry involved and I have no idea
> > how
> > to do it on a mac but as the Mac OS has its origin in Linux it is likely a
> > shell
> > script from Linux could be adapted.
> 
> Now I am really confused:
> 
> a) The problem is really just with windows because a 'nix user could be 
> expected to be able to write a script for backup. The average Windows 
> user could not.
> 
> b) I specifically chose an example "other application" that you can 
> download to use with Windows or to use with one of the 'nix's or with 
> Mac All the Firefox user data is in one directory.
> 
> c) Mac OS not based on Linux ---  Based on BSD UNIX
> 
> 
> > I avoid it totally as I keep complete backups of my home directory on an
> > NAS,
> > another laptop and  an online storage as well as periodically an offsite USB
> > .
> 
> That'd be ideal for moving to a new computer since you want EVERYTHING 
> copied. Or say for the year end back-up. But every periodic backup? 
> That's be taking a lot of time and space copying data that hasn't 
> changed in six month, and at least in Windows, can't be doing that while 
> logged in as that user (I am usually doing other useful things while 
> some of the longer running copies are running).
> 
> Michael D Novack
> 
> 
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