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|    Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Paul    |
|    Re: Good backup program for Linux Mint    |
|    18 Feb 26 00:20:37    |
      From: ldo@nz.invalid              On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:43:15 -0500, Paul wrote:              > On Tue, 2/17/2026 4:37 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:       >>       >> On Tue, 17 Feb 2026 03:08:29 -0500, Paul wrote:       >>       >>> The Free version would appear to do Fulls, the Paid version is       >>> Full, Incremental and Differential (the latter two could be       >>> related to Fast Backup terminology).       >>       >> rsync gives you all that in the free version. And that’s Free       >> software, not freeware.       >       > The Windows backup programs, are intended to allow ordinary people       > to make some kind of backup.              Is “ordinary” some kind of synonym for “credulous”? I ask because ...              > [goes on to describe a GUI-based product that started out pleasant       > to use and became enshittified]              The thing with Free software is: what you see is what you get. It’s       never going to get enshittified, because that will be seen as a bug,       not a feature.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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