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@ian

> That sounds like a lot of IT skills are needed for that. I’ve never seen or used a script. Nor have my kids. Telling non IT users to do that is going to scare people back to Windows.

You might be surprised, but you could have both learned scripting and already have a working solution in the time you spent replying to this thread.

Windows is a good solution to people who don't care how something works.

> I’m scared of wasting my time.
Learning something useful is never a waste of time

@ian @Lem453

> do you think they send text commands from the GUI to another UI, the CLI? Sounds like an inefficient, legacy irrelevance to the user.

This is literally what programs do in one way or another.

@ian @Lem453

1. They didn't get it "wrong". There's a million ways to do it, no matter what system you're using and none of them is zero effort. If you don't test your backups somewhat regularly, you don't have backups.

2. Your kids shouldn't need to worry about backups. Script them.

3. If you're scared of a cli and you're not willing to step out of your comfort zone, go for MacOS with Time Capsule, which is the only fully integrated solution that brings you zero involvement.

@woelkchen

> Average hardware of which era?

2012 or so.