I installed Retrospect Backup on a Power Mac running OS 9.1, to back up a recently acquired B&W running Panther. There isn't much on the B&W yet, so I have been backing up everything to a FW HD on the PowerMac, but as large files accumulate in user accounts, I would like to backup just the documents from then all. When I ran Retrospect's browser to view the OSX volume on a B&W. It found several individual files, and the following folders (which would not open in the browser).
.Trashes Applications automount bin cores Desktop Folder Documents Library private sbin System TheVolumesSettingsFolder Trash Users usr Volumes
Assuming all the users put their documents in their "Documents" folders, will backing up only "Users" get _all_ user's documents? What about the "usr" or "Documents" folders?
/usr is unix's version of the Users folder. It's not used for that in OS X. It mainly holds unix shell applications.
The /Documents folder is a legacy OS 9 folder. It holds some user stuff from OS 9 apps (OS 9 iTunes stores it's files in there for example).
Is the Documents folder in the list above the same Documents folder that is in the main Hard Drive window, --ie a separate folder from each person's individual Documents folder?
Under OS 9 the /Docuements folder performs the same function as the /User/username/Documents folder but it's use is more uniform in OS X.
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