jbrains

First, thank you for trying.

There's what I want and there's what I'm trying to do. 😉

Waving my magic wand, I'd like a bootable backup of my laptop's internal hard drive. This is what SuperDuper does. I would like it to be straightforward: I issue one command, then I can boot from the external hard disk to which I have backed up. For bonus points, restore is merely backup in the other direction.

That is what I'd like.

I'm cloning a drive with Clonezilla and tomorrow I'll try to boot to the backup drive. I would like to understand how restore works, but frankly, I'm not optimistic and I'm not currently eager to risk screwing up my laptop's internal hard disk.

How curious.

I am now trying my first backup. There were extra steps and I think I did it correctly, but the web site inundated me with details in a way that Shirt Pocket did not do with SuperDuper.

I haven't used Mac OS regularly since about 2019, so I take you at your word that backing up isn't as easy on Mac OS as it used to be.

With any luck, this just works. There is room for a simpler and gentler introduction to this. Maybe I can publish one.

Easy? Is this the kind of easy that's "easy once you understand"?

I want to be able to back up, not earn an undergraduate degree in how to back up.

Sweden and Switzerland. 🤷

Yes, but to folks accustomed to using SuperDuper to create bootable backups, it does not seem so straightforward.

Exactly. Designs are tangled, causing unexpected explosions in the next building. And when I invite programmers to create less-tangled designs, they scoff and call it "overengineering".

And then another explosion in the next building.

🤷

(This isn't the only cause/effect path leading to unexpected defects, but it's a very common one.)

Folks like the idea of being a vigilante, but once you have a taste for using violence to get your way....

Should have been purple, no?

Why must it be elitist to recognize people thoroughly trained in a field? Acknowledging this incorrect dichotomy already loses the game.

Possible, but not popular, and therefore strange. Because strange, rare. Because rare, strange. Repeat.

Torsk på Tallinn.

I'd love to tell you, but...