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exFAT for mechanical spinning external HD as cross-platform backup?
We have a mix of Linux (Debian) and MacOS laptops. I have a 4 TB external USB mechanical rotary drive I'd like to use for backups. I'd not want to partition the drive with different file systems for ...
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How to use one external hard drive to back up Windows and Linux as well as macOS with Time Machine?
I have an external hard disk drive I use for all of my backups.
I created an NTFS partition that I backed up Windows 10 to.
Then I created an ext4 partition and backed up Linux Mint to that.
Now, I ...
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Why rsync keeps sending same files each invocation?
I'm using rsync to copy file from Linux to Mac over SSH.
My command looks like this:
rsync \
--exclude FOO \
--exclude BAR \
-e ssh \
-rclpvih \
--delete \
--stats \
/local/...
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How can I fully backup Windows, Linux and various boot partitions of an external drive?
I have an external drive for my 2017 iMac with a Windows-to-go and Linux system installed on it. It took a lot of work to get this set up just the way I needed, and am trying to find a way to make ...
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How can I modify/open files without changing last modified/opened date on Mac OS (or Linux)?
My dad passed away last year, so I have boxes of dozens of old hard drives (all HFS+) with my all his files and pictures on them. I want to copy everything into one drive/RAID (also HFS+, possibly ...
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To fix permissions for backups in reading
I see the following kind of folders in reading my backup disc with OSX, similarly forbidden in reading by Debian Linux 8.1.
The SSD of my Macbook broke two months ago so I have had recover some ...
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Keeping data separate from OS
Is there a simple way to configure windows/linux/mac so that the OS is installed on a separate HDD/SSD to all the user data which is stored on one or more drives?My motivations are:
Quick and easy ...
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Rsync is resending all files, because files have different timestamp (off by 1 second?)
I am using rsync to backup files from my Mac laptop to a USB drive (exFAT) on my Windows laptop. The USB drive is shared within my home network, and mounted on my Mac.
I noticed a weird problem when ...
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How to safely back up a sparsebundle that is exported via afpd?
I have several OSX client machines that back up via TimeMachine to AFP shares on an Ubuntu Linux server, exported by netatalk/afpd. These clients back up at arbitrary times of the day, every day. ...
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Rsync from godaddy to OS X
I would like to use rsync to backup my website to my local computer (OS X). I started of with this guide and got pretty far.
I use the following rsync-line:
rsync -PzrlptgD --del --delete-excluded -...
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rm -rf does not delete folder contents but instead creates another empty one
I'm currently writing a start script for a minecraft game server. In this script I included a backup script.
This backup script works almost perfect but instead of deleting a folders contents it just ...
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FreeNAS and Backup Shares
I've been doing some work with FreeNAS and I saw that it has shares for Linux, Mac, Windows.
Does this mean that in order to properly create a backup system that FAT32 is not an ideal option to ...
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Cross-platform backup solutions [closed]
Here's my situation. I'm always feeling uncomfortable with backups which are bound to one specific OS. A Mac OS X Time Machine backup, for example, is not very helpful when you can't afford a new Mac ...
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Best synchronization tool for UNIX [closed]
I often find myself working on an out-dated version of a document, because I previously edited it on my MacBook and now I'm on my Mac Pro.
I'm looking for a tool to help me synchronize this as ...
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Regarding Backup While Using CP
I have some files on the Desktop
/Desktop/F1/T1
/Desktop/F2/T2
I want to copy those files to another folder like Destination
but If the destination contains a file with same name I want to backup ...
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How do I keep folders synced and backed up between two macs using a Linux NAS (rsync?)
I've got two primary computers, one Mac Pro and one MacBook Pro for when I'm on the go. I've also got a Linux sever which also acts as NAS.
Currently I backup the entire computers to an external ...
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Complete backup of online email account w/ easy future offline access?
I have an old school email account that is expiring in a couple of months, which supports IMAP and POP3. I would like to make a complete offline backup of all my email in that account, ideally with ...
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backup with tar via ssh
I know how to backup a filesystem with tar and restore it later, but i'd like to know how to do that with a remote system. I'm really terrible at all command piping stuff and i can't simply adapt the ...
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Best linux backup software that is most like Time Machine [closed]
What is the best Linux Mint backup tool that is most like Time Machine (that ships on Macs)?
The one thing that I want it to have similar to Time Machine is that it only backs up files that have been ...
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