Hi,

Have you considered just doing a tar on the /home directory on a
periodic basis, and just copy the tar file to a backup drive. Simple and
easy.

regards,
Andrew



On 8/8/2021 7:38 PM, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Apple products and the Apple OS (currently based upon BSD) are
> proprietary.� If one needs service (hardware or software), one
> effectively must use an Apple store (at least in the USA).� The
> colleague is retired and has little money (this is the downward mobile
> USA economy save for the neo-liberal profiteers).� She got a used/refurb
> Lenovo Carbon X1 and I just installed a working Linux on it --
> everything worked "out of the box".
> 
> Reading more, Timeshift appears to be a systems, not end user files,
> backup utility.� Any suggestions from anyone?
> 
> Take care.� Stay safe.
> 
> On 8/8/21 7:32 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 04:09:04PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
>>>
>>> Assuming that she obtains a, say 1 Tbyte, external USB drive
>>> (powered from the USB port and either mechanical or SSD), she plans
>>> to do incremental backups to the backup drive.
>>>
>>> ... what ... would anyone recommend?
>>> ... [need] tool [that] actually "works".
>>>
>>
>> get a mac and use the built-in incremental backup tool called "time
>> machine".
>>
>> spend more $$$, save on time, headache medicines and torn hair repair
>> (assuming you still had any).
>>