<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">Steve,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small">As I said:<br><br><span class="gmail-im">>I probably use laptops in a really weird way,<br><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:times new roman,serif;font-size:small"><span class="gmail-im">md<br></span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 7:50 PM Steve Litt via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Jon "maddog" Hall via Ale said on Thu, 3 Aug 2023 19:18:09 -0400<br>
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>Hi,<br>
><br>
>I probably use laptops in a really weird way, since I travel so much<br>
>and I have been stuck without good (or any) Internet connections, etc.<br>
> Therefore I always had a laptop that I could keep all of my relevant<br>
> data on it to<br>
>create presentations, videos, etc. I have three TB of storage on my<br>
>laptop.<br>
><br>
>Of course you have to back this up, and with a 3.0 USB port it takes<br>
>over 18 hours to do that. <br>
<br>
I'm not sure what you're backing up to, but if it's a USB3 spinning<br>
rust disk and you use rsync and cp -al, only the very first backup<br>
takes 18 hours, with all subsequent backups taking minutes because only<br>
changed files are transferred.<br>
<br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
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