by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n
I learn how NOT to backup an Apple computer.<\/strong><\/p>\n Apple has a piece of software called “Time Machine.” It automates backups. The software puts all the files on the computer disk into a “big ball of bytes” on a backup disk. You must have Time Machine to access the individual files in the big ball of bytes.<\/p>\n I don’t like my individual files stored in a big ball of bytes accessible only by a proprietary piece of software. I am afraid that the proprietary piece of software will go away, and I will be stuck with a big ball of bytes that makes no sense.<\/p>\n I like the Unix (Linux, whatever) command line and the ls<\/em> command. I suppose that is a function of age.<\/p>\n Given the above, it should not surprise people that for the past six years I kept a backup of my Apple iMac using scripts I wrote that employed the rsync <\/em>command. If you read my previous post, you know that my iMac disk was erased and reformatted. I spent a week moving files back to the iMac.\u00a0I learned a lesson:<\/p>\n Use the Apple Time Machine software for backups of an Apple computer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Unix scripts using rsync and other commands works alright for data files (.doc, .xls, .c, etc.). They don’t work for applications and other things in between.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips I learn how NOT to backup an Apple computer. Apple has a piece of software called “Time Machine.” It automates backups. The software puts all the files on the computer disk into a “big ball of bytes” on a backup disk. You must have Time Machine to access the individual files in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69,83,20],"tags":[189,200,142],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-computing","category-learning","tag-apple","tag-computing","tag-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}