Re: OS X backup script

2016-08-06 Thread Russell Courtenay
The main thing is getting all the 'switches' right then getting it to show some kind of progress output, I guess... I'll check into that... Russell Courtenay Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 5, 2016, at 11:12 PM, cb wrote: > > If you know how to do what you want in batch with xcopy you can proba

Re: OS X backup script

2016-08-06 Thread Russell Courtenay
I want to write my own script, if just to prove I am still a ‘programmer’ but expedience will take over for the moment, I downloaded SuperDuper and the free version looks like it will do what I need. I will try it tonight on ‘Smart Update’ so it will just copy over the updated files… Thanks for

Free OS reimplementations (Re: OS X backup script)

2016-08-06 Thread Josh Juran
On Aug 6, 2016, at 11:25 PM, Russell Courtenay wrote: > I still would like to work on an ‘open source’ version of the OS X interface > to work over Darwin, I dunno, I would encourage you to support more than just Darwin. The vast majority of Darwin installations are OS X itself. :-) > just

Re: Free OS reimplementations (Re: OS X backup script)

2016-08-06 Thread Russell Courtenay
Wow cool! Great stuff! I guess I really like the old days of computing where efficiency and every Hz mattered, I frankly don’t understand why the 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo with 2 gigs of RAM in my iMac is so slow sometimes on a modern OS when as I recall on my BLAZING 50 MHz Amiga I had NO such

Re: OS X backup script

2016-08-06 Thread Russell Courtenay
Just tried to run SuperDuper and it gives me a warning ‘This feature only available in the $27.95 registered version”. Nice. I guess I will be writing a script… Russell Courtenay Sent from my old iMac > On Aug 6, 2016, at 9:25 PM, Russell Courtenay wrote: > > I want to write my own script, i