David E. Ross wrote:
The point of my earlier reply is that I backup my entire system, not
just Mozilla. I am not sure why users would backup only Mozilla and not
be concerned about the rest of their systems.
Fair enough.
Depends on what you're intending to accomplish with your backups.
Definitely a good approach for regular/scheduled backups, and my regular
backups include most of %APPDATA%. On further reflection, knowing the
volume of miscellaneous/unneeded data that gets backed up, I might
consider doing what you have done, of putting my profiles in a data
folder that's more easily accessed.
The place where MozBackup can be useful is for a one-off/right now
backup of a profile, something that you may not need to keep long-term,
and where recovery of said backup may need to be almost immediate after
it's been made. For me, that would include a backup made prior to
Mozilla update, as well as moving a profile to a new computer, and where
I want a backup where the data is more current than what goes into a
routine backup.
For me, the move scenario is the place where I most often use MozBackup,
because it takes care of getting the right locations, and I don't have
to go digging in %APPDATA%. And this is also the standard suggestion I
give to non-technical end-users.
Occasionally, I will do a MozBackup run, that writes output to the
external hard drive, where I do the rest of my backups. I do some of my
backups via rsync processes (including most of my Mozilla data), and a
MozBackup archive allows me to keep a long-term snapshot much longer
than I would keep with rsync-type backups.
Smith
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