Backup, syncing & password consultant for Ubuntu & Win10

[Charles Irons]

Hello Ralf Mardorf,

Thanks for your detailed advice.  Just reading it was scary for me.

I have used Ubuntu happily as an end-user since 2005.

Now at age 82 technology has run ahead of me. I am slow and need to do 
other things instead of learning more IT skills.

If I pass on first, my computer setup needs to be easy for my wife to 
operate with Windows software.

So I will first try to find help from someone who can come here in 
Joburg to do it for me.

Thanks for your time and concern.

Kind regards. Chas .

On 2021/07/06 11:32, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> Hi Charles,
>
> a backup of your Linux install is easy to achieve. A restore is easy on
> the same hardware and most of the times even on different hardware.
>
> A complete backup and if needed restore of Windows and iOS/iPadOS
> devices is more or less impossible. Apple support claims that complete
> backups are possible by e.g. doing a backup via iTunes, vendors of
> software for iOS and iPadOS explicit mention that data of their
> applications requires saving the files manually, data is not backuped
> using iTunes.
>
> I've got an ifuse based Linux setup, that can access iOS and iPadOS
> devices, by more than just getting access to photos and videos, already
> without a jailbreak. I warn to use it, since when testing it, without
> making an user error, just by read access, the usage damaged data on
> one of my iPads.
>
> Sync between all operating systems might work for some applications. I
> never tested it myself. However, I experienced that sync already fails
> between a single app, one running on an outdated iOS, and the other
> running on an up to date iPadOS. Most of the times sync works, but
> sometimes it fails. Sometimes is way to often.
>
> It depends on what you want to backup and what you want to sync.
>
> Passwords are a can of worms, two power users, >= four opinions. Don't
> be concerned too much about passwords, what gets cracked are usually
> not the passwords, hackers are more often using weak spots of software
> and/or settings, they especially target the "security through
> obscurity" approach.
>
> I probably could help to find a reliable backup strategy for your Linux
> install, that fit to your needs. Be sceptical towards recommended
> methods to backup and restore iOS/iPadOS devices, let alone Windows
> based computers. If any of those methods would really do a good job,
> then there wouldn't be that much news related to latest extorsively
> hacker attacks.
>
> Do you want to backup the Linux install + data or do you want to backup
> the data only?
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>

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