Re: only want to back up a few items

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In terminal there are a few ways to do a selective backup.  This one 
allows one to choose which folders and if wished to backup only those 
files that have changed since the last backup.


Better than Time Machine: backup your Mac with rsync

http://www.haykranen.nl/2008/05/05/rsync/

On Mon, 11 Jul 2016, Traci Duncan wrote:


Is there a good back up/sync solution if I only want to back up a handful of 
items?  For example, I want to back up music, photos, a folder inside 
documents, and a couple protected DMG folders.  The DMG folders inside 
documents often change and update, they are works in progress.

From my Googling, it sounds like it is difficult in Time Machine to only 
include items.  Time Machine?s set up is to exclude.  If I want to back up a 
handful, I imagine my exclusion list would be large.

Any advice or guidance on this?  Also, is there a way in Time Machine to limit 
the number of snap shots?  I?m not really looking to access a snap shot from 3 
Months ago.

I remember I had this cool program in Windows, where I plugged in a USB drive 
and had it set up to back up 3 or 4 folders on my system.  It had something 
like 3 options to back up changes, replace, or duplicate.  If I remember 
correctly, it was meant for the person that may take their USB drive to work or 
school, change files on it, then want to save those changes to their system at 
home.  They could then continue to work on the files at home and save those 
changes back to the USB drive.  I cannot remember the name of the program, but 
it met my needs perfectly.  :)

Thanks for your thoughts.

Traci

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Re: only want to back up a few items

[Larry Thacker Jr.]

Crash plan can be set up to do this and it’s free unless you want the online 
backup feature.  It is pretty accessible as far as I can remember.  I am using 
it but it is one of those things you only open if you need it.  I have a couple 
of complaints about it though.  You can’t get at it from the menu extras icon.  
You have to start the interface some other way.  The backups are not given 
human intelligible names, so you can’t just go browsing for a file you want to 
recover.  The perfect solution for this would be a Mac version of SyncBack for 
Windows, but alas there is not one.

> On Jul 11, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Traci Duncan  wrote:
> 
> Is there a good back up/sync solution if I only want to back up a handful of 
> items?  For example, I want to back up music, photos, a folder inside 
> documents, and a couple protected DMG folders.  The DMG folders inside 
> documents often change and update, they are works in progress.
> 
> From my Googling, it sounds like it is difficult in Time Machine to only 
> include items.  Time Machine’s set up is to exclude.  If I want to back up a 
> handful, I imagine my exclusion list would be large.
> 
> Any advice or guidance on this?  Also, is there a way in Time Machine to 
> limit the number of snap shots?  I’m not really looking to access a snap shot 
> from 3 Months ago.
> 
> I remember I had this cool program in Windows, where I plugged in a USB drive 
> and had it set up to back up 3 or 4 folders on my system.  It had something 
> like 3 options to back up changes, replace, or duplicate.  If I remember 
> correctly, it was meant for the person that may take their USB drive to work 
> or school, change files on it, then want to save those changes to their 
> system at home.  They could then continue to work on the files at home and 
> save those changes back to the USB drive.  I cannot remember the name of the 
> program, but it met my needs perfectly.  :)
> 
> Thanks for your thoughts.
> 
> Traci
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Re: only want to back up a few items

[Scott Granados]

Tim and others, what about something like superdooper?


You could also do this with a network drive and a script in cron but that is 
probably outside the scope of this list.
 
> On Jul 11, 2016, at 11:44 AM, Tim Kilburn  wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Time Machine may still work.  If you tell it to exclude the /Applications 
> folder, the system folder and the Library folder, it will bring up a warning 
> about whether you wish to exclude some System files or all of them.  If you 
> choose all of them, then you can significantly reduce the backup size.  I 
> believe that CCC or SuperDuper may work for you as well, although I haven't 
> used them for backups like this.  The beauty of using any of these solutions 
> is that they will perform incremental backups automatically, just saving what 
> has been changed.  this is usually much more efficient than simply copying 
> things over every few days.
> 
> Later..
> 
> Tim Kilburn
> Fort McMurray, AB Canada
> 
> On Jul 11, 2016, at 09:35, Traci Duncan  wrote:
> 
> Yes, I plan on using a 32GB USB drive.  It’s tiny, so if I want to have it 
> with me, I have my most important folders from my Mac.  I’m not clear if Time 
> Machine is my best solution for backing up/syncing half a dozen folders/files.
> 
> Thanks,
> Traci
> 
>> On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:32 AM, Kimber Gardner  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> How about an external drive or cloud storage?
>> 
>> On 7/11/16, Traci Duncan  wrote:
>>> Is there a good back up/sync solution if I only want to back up a handful of
>>> items?  For example, I want to back up music, photos, a folder inside
>>> documents, and a couple protected DMG folders.  The DMG folders inside
>>> documents often change and update, they are works in progress.
>>> 
>>> From my Googling, it sounds like it is difficult in Time Machine to only
>>> include items.  Time Machine’s set up is to exclude.  If I want to back up a
>>> handful, I imagine my exclusion list would be large.
>>> 
>>> Any advice or guidance on this?  Also, is there a way in Time Machine to
>>> limit the number of snap shots?  I’m not really looking to access a snap
>>> shot from 3 Months ago.
>>> 
>>> I remember I had this cool program in Windows, where I plugged in a USB
>>> drive and had it set up to back up 3 or 4 folders on my system.  It had
>>> something like 3 options to back up changes, replace, or duplicate.  If I
>>> remember correctly, it was meant for the person that may take their USB
>>> drive to work or school, change files on it, then want to save those changes
>>> to their system at home.  They could then continue to work on the files at
>>> home and save those changes back to the USB drive.  I cannot remember the
>>> name of the program, but it met my needs perfectly.  :)
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your thoughts.
>>> 
>>> Traci
>>> 
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Re: only want to back up a few items

[E.T.]

   You are probably right and since I use CCC, a task can be created to 
do just what Traci wants.


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On 7/11/2016 8:49 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote:

Hi,

I believe that it may be difficult to create a workflow in Automator that would 
accomplish this.  Someone could correct me, but it's stock workflows are not 
designed for this sort of solution.

Later...

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Jul 11, 2016, at 09:42, E.T.  wrote:

  I have not used it but Automator cones ti mind. Its in your Applications 
folder.

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On 7/11/2016 8:35 AM, Traci Duncan wrote:

Yes, I plan on using a 32GB USB drive.  It’s tiny, so if I want to have it with 
me, I have my most important folders from my Mac.  I’m not clear if Time 
Machine is my best solution for backing up/syncing half a dozen folders/files.

Thanks,
Traci


On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:32 AM, Kimber Gardner  wrote:

How about an external drive or cloud storage?

On 7/11/16, Traci Duncan  wrote:

Is there a good back up/sync solution if I only want to back up a handful of
items?  For example, I want to back up music, photos, a folder inside
documents, and a couple protected DMG folders.  The DMG folders inside
documents often change and update, they are works in progress.

From my Googling, it sounds like it is difficult in Time Machine to only
include items.  Time Machine’s set up is to exclude.  If I want to back up a
handful, I imagine my exclusion list would be large.

Any advice or guidance on this?  Also, is there a way in Time Machine to
limit the number of snap shots?  I’m not really looking to access a snap
shot from 3 Months ago.

I remember I had this cool program in Windows, where I plugged in a USB
drive and had it set up to back up 3 or 4 folders on my system.  It had
something like 3 options to back up changes, replace, or duplicate.  If I
remember correctly, it was meant for the person that may take their USB
drive to work or school, change files on it, then want to save those changes
to their system at home.  They could then continue to work on the files at
home and save those changes back to the USB drive.  I cannot remember the
name of the program, but it met my needs perfectly.  :)

Thanks for your thoughts.

Traci

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Re: only want to back up a few items

[Tim Kilburn]

Hi,

I believe that it may be difficult to create a workflow in Automator that would 
accomplish this.  Someone could correct me, but it's stock workflows are not 
designed for this sort of solution.

Later...

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Jul 11, 2016, at 09:42, E.T.  wrote:

  I have not used it but Automator cones ti mind. Its in your Applications 
folder.

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On 7/11/2016 8:35 AM, Traci Duncan wrote:
> Yes, I plan on using a 32GB USB drive.  It’s tiny, so if I want to have it 
> with me, I have my most important folders from my Mac.  I’m not clear if Time 
> Machine is my best solution for backing up/syncing half a dozen folders/files.
> 
> Thanks,
> Traci
> 
>> On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:32 AM, Kimber Gardner  
>> wrote:
>> 
>> How about an external drive or cloud storage?
>> 
>> On 7/11/16, Traci Duncan  wrote:
>>> Is there a good back up/sync solution if I only want to back up a handful of
>>> items?  For example, I want to back up music, photos, a folder inside
>>> documents, and a couple protected DMG folders.  The DMG folders inside
>>> documents often change and update, they are works in progress.
>>> 
>>> From my Googling, it sounds like it is difficult in Time Machine to only
>>> include items.  Time Machine’s set up is to exclude.  If I want to back up a
>>> handful, I imagine my exclusion list would be large.
>>> 
>>> Any advice or guidance on this?  Also, is there a way in Time Machine to
>>> limit the number of snap shots?  I’m not really looking to access a snap
>>> shot from 3 Months ago.
>>> 
>>> I remember I had this cool program in Windows, where I plugged in a USB
>>> drive and had it set up to back up 3 or 4 folders on my system.  It had
>>> something like 3 options to back up changes, replace, or duplicate.  If I
>>> remember correctly, it was meant for the person that may take their USB
>>> drive to work or school, change files on it, then want to save those changes
>>> to their system at home.  They could then continue to work on the files at
>>> home and save those changes back to the USB drive.  I cannot remember the
>>> name of the program, but it met my needs perfectly.  :)
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your thoughts.
>>> 
>>> Traci
>>> 
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Re: only want to back up a few items

[Tim Kilburn]

Hi,

Time Machine may still work.  If you tell it to exclude the /Applications 
folder, the system folder and the Library folder, it will bring up a warning 
about whether you wish to exclude some System files or all of them.  If you 
choose all of them, then you can significantly reduce the backup size.  I 
believe that CCC or SuperDuper may work for you as well, although I haven't 
used them for backups like this.  The beauty of using any of these solutions is 
that they will perform incremental backups automatically, just saving what has 
been changed.  this is usually much more efficient than simply copying things 
over every few days.

Later..

Tim Kilburn
Fort McMurray, AB Canada

On Jul 11, 2016, at 09:35, Traci Duncan  wrote:

Yes, I plan on using a 32GB USB drive.  It’s tiny, so if I want to have it with 
me, I have my most important folders from my Mac.  I’m not clear if Time 
Machine is my best solution for backing up/syncing half a dozen folders/files.

Thanks,
Traci

> On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:32 AM, Kimber Gardner  
> wrote:
> 
> How about an external drive or cloud storage?
> 
> On 7/11/16, Traci Duncan  wrote:
>> Is there a good back up/sync solution if I only want to back up a handful of
>> items?  For example, I want to back up music, photos, a folder inside
>> documents, and a couple protected DMG folders.  The DMG folders inside
>> documents often change and update, they are works in progress.
>> 
>> From my Googling, it sounds like it is difficult in Time Machine to only
>> include items.  Time Machine’s set up is to exclude.  If I want to back up a
>> handful, I imagine my exclusion list would be large.
>> 
>> Any advice or guidance on this?  Also, is there a way in Time Machine to
>> limit the number of snap shots?  I’m not really looking to access a snap
>> shot from 3 Months ago.
>> 
>> I remember I had this cool program in Windows, where I plugged in a USB
>> drive and had it set up to back up 3 or 4 folders on my system.  It had
>> something like 3 options to back up changes, replace, or duplicate.  If I
>> remember correctly, it was meant for the person that may take their USB
>> drive to work or school, change files on it, then want to save those changes
>> to their system at home.  They could then continue to work on the files at
>> home and save those changes back to the USB drive.  I cannot remember the
>> name of the program, but it met my needs perfectly.  :)
>> 
>> Thanks for your thoughts.
>> 
>> Traci
>> 
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Re: only want to back up a few items

[E.T.]

   I have not used it but Automator cones ti mind. Its in your 
Applications folder.


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On 7/11/2016 8:35 AM, Traci Duncan wrote:

Yes, I plan on using a 32GB USB drive.  It’s tiny, so if I want to have it with 
me, I have my most important folders from my Mac.  I’m not clear if Time 
Machine is my best solution for backing up/syncing half a dozen folders/files.

Thanks,
Traci


On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:32 AM, Kimber Gardner  wrote:

How about an external drive or cloud storage?

On 7/11/16, Traci Duncan  wrote:

Is there a good back up/sync solution if I only want to back up a handful of
items?  For example, I want to back up music, photos, a folder inside
documents, and a couple protected DMG folders.  The DMG folders inside
documents often change and update, they are works in progress.

From my Googling, it sounds like it is difficult in Time Machine to only
include items.  Time Machine’s set up is to exclude.  If I want to back up a
handful, I imagine my exclusion list would be large.

Any advice or guidance on this?  Also, is there a way in Time Machine to
limit the number of snap shots?  I’m not really looking to access a snap
shot from 3 Months ago.

I remember I had this cool program in Windows, where I plugged in a USB
drive and had it set up to back up 3 or 4 folders on my system.  It had
something like 3 options to back up changes, replace, or duplicate.  If I
remember correctly, it was meant for the person that may take their USB
drive to work or school, change files on it, then want to save those changes
to their system at home.  They could then continue to work on the files at
home and save those changes back to the USB drive.  I cannot remember the
name of the program, but it met my needs perfectly.  :)

Thanks for your thoughts.

Traci

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Re: only want to back up a few items

[Traci Duncan]

Yes, I plan on using a 32GB USB drive.  It’s tiny, so if I want to have it with 
me, I have my most important folders from my Mac.  I’m not clear if Time 
Machine is my best solution for backing up/syncing half a dozen folders/files.

Thanks,
Traci

> On Jul 11, 2016, at 8:32 AM, Kimber Gardner  
> wrote:
> 
> How about an external drive or cloud storage?
> 
> On 7/11/16, Traci Duncan  wrote:
>> Is there a good back up/sync solution if I only want to back up a handful of
>> items?  For example, I want to back up music, photos, a folder inside
>> documents, and a couple protected DMG folders.  The DMG folders inside
>> documents often change and update, they are works in progress.
>> 
>> From my Googling, it sounds like it is difficult in Time Machine to only
>> include items.  Time Machine’s set up is to exclude.  If I want to back up a
>> handful, I imagine my exclusion list would be large.
>> 
>> Any advice or guidance on this?  Also, is there a way in Time Machine to
>> limit the number of snap shots?  I’m not really looking to access a snap
>> shot from 3 Months ago.
>> 
>> I remember I had this cool program in Windows, where I plugged in a USB
>> drive and had it set up to back up 3 or 4 folders on my system.  It had
>> something like 3 options to back up changes, replace, or duplicate.  If I
>> remember correctly, it was meant for the person that may take their USB
>> drive to work or school, change files on it, then want to save those changes
>> to their system at home.  They could then continue to work on the files at
>> home and save those changes back to the USB drive.  I cannot remember the
>> name of the program, but it met my needs perfectly.  :)
>> 
>> Thanks for your thoughts.
>> 
>> Traci
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Re: only want to back up a few items

[Kimber Gardner]

How about an external drive or cloud storage?

On 7/11/16, Traci Duncan  wrote:
> Is there a good back up/sync solution if I only want to back up a handful of
> items?  For example, I want to back up music, photos, a folder inside
> documents, and a couple protected DMG folders.  The DMG folders inside
> documents often change and update, they are works in progress.
>
> From my Googling, it sounds like it is difficult in Time Machine to only
> include items.  Time Machine’s set up is to exclude.  If I want to back up a
> handful, I imagine my exclusion list would be large.
>
> Any advice or guidance on this?  Also, is there a way in Time Machine to
> limit the number of snap shots?  I’m not really looking to access a snap
> shot from 3 Months ago.
>
> I remember I had this cool program in Windows, where I plugged in a USB
> drive and had it set up to back up 3 or 4 folders on my system.  It had
> something like 3 options to back up changes, replace, or duplicate.  If I
> remember correctly, it was meant for the person that may take their USB
> drive to work or school, change files on it, then want to save those changes
> to their system at home.  They could then continue to work on the files at
> home and save those changes back to the USB drive.  I cannot remember the
> name of the program, but it met my needs perfectly.  :)
>
> Thanks for your thoughts.
>
> Traci
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only want to back up a few items

[Traci Duncan]

Is there a good back up/sync solution if I only want to back up a handful of 
items?  For example, I want to back up music, photos, a folder inside 
documents, and a couple protected DMG folders.  The DMG folders inside 
documents often change and update, they are works in progress.

>From my Googling, it sounds like it is difficult in Time Machine to only 
>include items.  Time Machine’s set up is to exclude.  If I want to back up a 
>handful, I imagine my exclusion list would be large.

Any advice or guidance on this?  Also, is there a way in Time Machine to limit 
the number of snap shots?  I’m not really looking to access a snap shot from 3 
Months ago.

I remember I had this cool program in Windows, where I plugged in a USB drive 
and had it set up to back up 3 or 4 folders on my system.  It had something 
like 3 options to back up changes, replace, or duplicate.  If I remember 
correctly, it was meant for the person that may take their USB drive to work or 
school, change files on it, then want to save those changes to their system at 
home.  They could then continue to work on the files at home and save those 
changes back to the USB drive.  I cannot remember the name of the program, but 
it met my needs perfectly.  :)

Thanks for your thoughts.

Traci

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