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using backup.app from .MAC to backup dot-files
Authored by: roncross@cox.net on May 18, '04 05:12:18AM

(Authored by: rhowell on Mon, May 17 '04 at 12:29PM

The only thing I don't like about Backup is that it won't copy any of my .files (dot-files), which is a real bummer if you use a lot of unix apps. SilverKeeper and others do, however, but of course they don't have any integration with my .Mac account.)

This is not true, I was able to use backup.app to backup .files (dot-files) without any problems. The only thing that I wasn't allow to back up is the .Trash. But I personally don't see any reason to backup the trash right now.

You do this by going to find in finder and doing a search that queries for the items whose visibility is true and whose name starts with "."

Once you see the dot-file, then simply drag it over to the backup window and backup.app will back it up without any problems. If you look for it, you will not find it since all of the files that are being backed up are compressed and have a .gz extension in the backup folder.

thx
RLC

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rlc



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