Hi, Have you considered just doing a tar on the /home directory on a periodic basis, and just copy the tar file to a backup drive. Simple and easy.
regards, Andrew On 8/8/2021 7:38 PM, Yasha Karant wrote: > Apple products and the Apple OS (currently based upon BSD) are > proprietary.� If one needs service (hardware or software), one > effectively must use an Apple store (at least in the USA).� The > colleague is retired and has little money (this is the downward mobile > USA economy save for the neo-liberal profiteers).� She got a used/refurb > Lenovo Carbon X1 and I just installed a working Linux on it -- > everything worked "out of the box". > > Reading more, Timeshift appears to be a systems, not end user files, > backup utility.� Any suggestions from anyone? > > Take care.� Stay safe. > > On 8/8/21 7:32 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 04:09:04PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: >>> >>> Assuming that she obtains a, say 1 Tbyte, external USB drive >>> (powered from the USB port and either mechanical or SSD), she plans >>> to do incremental backups to the backup drive. >>> >>> ... what ... would anyone recommend? >>> ... [need] tool [that] actually "works". >>> >> >> get a mac and use the built-in incremental backup tool called "time >> machine". >> >> spend more $$$, save on time, headache medicines and torn hair repair >> (assuming you still had any). >>