Backup, syncing & password consultant for Ubuntu & Win10

[Liam Proven]

On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 10:19, Charles Irons <irons.charles at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello Chris & Ubunt-ZA & Ubuntu user tech support

Hello Charles and welcome to the list.

I'm afraid I don't know who Christopher Schoonbee is – I don't think
he regularly posts to this mailing list. I don't recognise the name,
anyway.

> I hope to find a consultant willing to add cloud backup, syncing, password management & ? to my Ubuntu & Win10 machines!!

This is in South Africa, right?

I *might* know someone who could help... I will ask them.

> This Asus desktop PC running Ubuntu 20.04 LTS does most of my business but it is also getting old (2014?)

If it still works, then don't worry. My main laptops are older than that
.
> I bought a used HP ProBook in 2019? that will take over when this machine dies. It also has Ubuntu 20.04 installed but not up to date because the two are not synced. It also has dual boot Windows 10 that my wife is using for Gmail communication and we share it for Zoom meetings. (Asus has no camera nor built-in mic).

OK, so both you and your wife have Gmail. That is good to know and may
make some things a little easier.

> I use an old Samsung Galaxy smart phone and my wife uses an old Apple iPhone SE.

OK...

Well, on the iPhone, you can install Google's own tools for Google
Mail, Google Calendar, Google Photos, and Google Keep, Google Drive
from the App Store. These can sync everything to your wife's Google
account for her.

The built-in Contacts app will do that on its own, if she added her
Google account credentials in Settings under Accounts.

> Getting all this gear to work in sync would help a lot.

The obvious choice for synching files would be Google Drive.

On Windows you can install Google Backup and Sync, the new name for
what used to be called Google Drive, and it will do it for you.

But sadly, there is no free client for Linux. It's a big omission and
I don't know why Google doesn't offer one.

Honestly, for an easy life, my recommendation would be that you get
his-and-hers ChromeBooks, sync any files you want to keep off your old
computers, and just use the Chromebooks going forwards. Sell your
older computers on to someone else.

ChromeBooks are pretty cheap and they handle email, basic word
processing, spreadsheets, photo viewing and simple editing, contacts,
chat, all that kind of thing quite well.

Then you have nothing to sync, nothing to keep up to date, no programs
to worry about, nothing.


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