Comment by BrandoElFollito

Comment by BrandoElFollito 20 hours ago

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Almost all of my backup is around restic, including monitoring of backups (when they fail and when they do not run often enough).

It is a very solid setup, with 3 independent backups: local, nearby and far away.

Now - it took an awful lot of time to set up (including drinking the wrapper to account for everything). This is advanced IT level.

So Time Machine is not for ignorant people, but something everyone can use. (I never used it, no idea if it's good but it has to all last work)

greenavocado 16 hours ago

One works, one loses your data. Oh well.

Guess there's a lot of money to be made wrapping it with a paid GUI

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  • BrandoElFollito 7 hours ago

    I am not sure what you are after, to be honest.

    Restic is fantastic. And restic is complicated for someone who is not technical.

    So there is a need to have something that works, even not in an optimal way, that saves people data.

    Are you saying that Time Machine doe snot backup data correctly? But then there are other services that do.

    Restic is not for the everyday Joe.

    And to your point about "ignorant people" - it is as I was saying that you are an ignorant person because you do not create your own medicine, or produce your own electricity, or paint your own paintings, or build your own car. For a biochemist specializing in pharma (or Walt in Breaking Bad :)) you are an ignorant person unable to do the basic stuff: synthetizing paracetamol. It is a piece of cake.

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