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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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