Re: timeshift

2021-08-08 Thread Andrew Komornicki
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

Re: timeshift

2021-08-08 Thread Yasha Karant
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

Re: timeshift

2021-08-08 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
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? > ...

timeshift

2021-08-08 Thread Yasha Karant
Please see: