Lu Users:
I'm still trying to keep my PPC computers going, although each of them is
having one kind of problem or another . . . . The G4 iBook is where I have
Lu 16.04 installed and generally the iBook is "OK" except it looks like the
HD is starting to go "pre-failure" on us.
The iBook is dual-b
I use backintime. It is very close to apple's time machine.
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> On Jul 5, 2017, at 3:47 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
>
> Lu Users:
>
> I'm still trying to keep my PPC computers going, although each of them is
> having one kind of problem or another . . . . The G4 iBook is where
HH:
Thanks for the reply and suggestion . . . w/o knowing about backintime, the
problem with apple's time machine is that it doesn't make a bootable
"clone" . . . it just backs up files from an install . . . but to move the
files back there has to be an installed system . . . . The bootable clone
if you want a bootable clone have you tried just dd the drive to an .iso
file?
On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Fritz Hudnut wrote:
> HH:
>
> Thanks for the reply and suggestion . . . w/o knowing about backintime,
> the problem with apple's time machine is that it doesn't make a bootable
> "clone
HH:
A . . . I'm melting . . . I'm melting . . . "dd" is something
mentioned over the years on linux forums as the "ultimate" solution, but I
just haven't tried it for anything . . . way back I was afraid to use the
console to do anything where the steps weren't given to me . . . . And,
th
I haven't seen backintime. But whenever I need a historical filesystem,
where I can go back to any date I want, I utilize git. I just cron
something to do the backups at regular interval, then use git manually to
go back in time. git is pretty fast too.
>>> On Wed, Jul 5, 2017 at 5:00 PM, Hermi
Hi,
I don't know how to backup the Apple OS, but you could backup a Linux
by simply coping all files, when the install isn't booted. IOW you
could use a live media to backup all files. This would copy all GRUB
related files as well, but to make an install that was restored from
the copy bootable,
