studio backups

[Kim Cascone]

> And to be fair Kim, it was 1 person. Hardly an ass-chewing. ;)
and to return that fairness I didn't say 'ass-chewing' and I didn't  
say that that took place here
FWIW - the 'chewing out' occurred on the ubuntumini list
you guys are better than that! ;)
I simply asked the 'wrong' questions here

but yes many people use the tools for backing up that now come  
bundled with OS X and XP
rather than wading through the miasma of Linux utilities that exist  
(UI and CLI)
and although most of them have community support
they do not get explained in a clear and concise manner
I done my time in the software industry and I've learned what it  
takes to write a useful manual and/or a clear spec for something
IMO: most FOSS manuals or instructions get a D for their work and  
usually require some posting on forums to get the experience of  
someone who worked thru the unwritten steps

> I don't think your situation is all that common.
really? nobody here has ever had to pop in a clone/mirror/backup/ up  
their data in order to restore it to a new and larger drive?
I find that hard to believe


in any event yes rsync is what some people use and I've tested Grsync  
but not on command line yet

> Personally, (dev hat off) saving a session in ~/ is nuts to me if HD
> space is even a possibility of an issue. I do *everything* on another
> drive. Just me. :)
maybe sessions aren't stored there but aren't app settings and the like?