I use SuperDuper!, which is a careful front-end to rsync, as far as I know. It's smart in that it pays attention to not copying files like caches and other things that Apple says should be avoided. The nice thing about it is that it's pretty easy to have scripts which exclude some files which are not all that useful. (Yes, this violates the principal of backups, but I have an old disk which doesn't hold much in one of my 4 backup locations, so I don't back up virtual machines which I rarely use.)
Bill > On May 7, 2018, at 20:38, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 7, 2018, at 6:39 PM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This must be the reason that Time Machine has often told me that it found >> problems and I would have to start from scratch. > > Who knows? I use it, but the belt and suspenders approach always seemed > prudent. > >> I, too, have never really liked Time Machine (too unreliable), but I never >> had a reason other than anecdotal experience. > > When I first started reading about Time Machine, it was pretty clear they > were building their own version of rsync. Have you tried rsync? All you’d > need is a Linux machine (Raspberry Pi?) or a NAS of some sort out on the > network. > > The problem with rsync is that it’s a command line program. I got around that > by writing shell scripts to do the incremental backups and scheduling them > with LaunchD. Not hard, but impossible for those allergic to the command > line. Since you don’t have that phobia, you might want to look into this. > > There are a bunch of gui rsync front ends in the App Store. I’ve not tried > any of them. > > L^2 > > --- > Lee Larson > [email protected] > > Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. > Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke > The Making of Kubrick’s 2001 > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mail-2Darchive.com_macgroup-40erdos.math.louisville.edu_&d=DwIFaQ&c=OAG1LQNACBDguGvBeNj18Swhr9TMTjS-x4O_KuapPgY&r=F2GFXrjLFqVo3VwvIlo_XYeEiRRjHv15rxcenz7A21woG2aFGcrzndoSsskxfmOs&m=oohoTyxgNeXaSWzzPtGJzLHRuGfgDrPzJvjfh_MODIU&s=Fv7E5Jb_GeQgUEDqWkK05PPST_prlIE5fj2r_lSLQXw&e=> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
