Re: Wanted: *Practical* Approach to Backups

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Sid Knee wrote:
Just as a fwiw, this is not necessarily true. Many programs do what you say by default but with parameters added to the shortcut command line, can be made to store their data, configuration info etc to a separate location (and of course, retrieve from that location).

I am aware of this, but there are three problems. First, not all programs offer this flexibility. As far as I know, for example, there is no way to tell FrameMaker to look for maker.ini (its configuration file) anyplace other than the program directory. Second, even in cases where it's possible, I don't currently have things organized that way, and it may not be practical to change now. For example, Eudora hard-codes the path to attachments in mailbox files, so moving the attachments directory to some other location would break the links between messages and attachments. Third, it just strikes me as ridiculous to organize my data in a way that makes more sense to my backup program than it does to me. The machine is supposed to be working for me, not vice versa.

Having said all that, is this really what people do in practice: jump through hoops of file to coerce all their programs to put their configuration and user data in a special "data" directory so that it can be easily backed up?

Thanks,

Scott


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