On 12/16/2022 8:23 PM, David Cousens wrote:
Agree that it would be ideal to have a single user directory but unfortunately
the different OS's have different requirements and conventions and they also
vary somewhat between various Linux distributions. It would not be too hard to
create a Linux bash script that could pack all the files on one computer into a
zip with a corresponding unpack on another Linux machine, but Linux to Windows
is likely to be more complex with the registry involved and I have no idea how
to do it on a mac but as the Mac OS has its origin in Linux it is likely a shell
script from Linux could be adapted.
Now I am really confused:
a) The problem is really just with windows because a 'nix user could be
expected to be able to write a script for backup. The average Windows
user could not.
b) I specifically chose an example "other application" that you can
download to use with Windows or to use with one of the 'nix's or with
Mac All the Firefox user data is in one directory.
c) Mac OS not based on Linux --- Based on BSD UNIX
I avoid it totally as I keep complete backups of my home directory on an NAS,
another laptop and an online storage as well as periodically an offsite USB .
That'd be ideal for moving to a new computer since you want EVERYTHING
copied. Or say for the year end back-up. But every periodic backup?
That's be taking a lot of time and space copying data that hasn't
changed in six month, and at least in Windows, can't be doing that while
logged in as that user (I am usually doing other useful things while
some of the longer running copies are running).
Michael D Novack
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