In article , Carlos E.R.
wrote:


I know people that do not know how to copy files to/from an usb stick.

one need not know how to do that for backups to occur.

Ah? And how will that person do the backup? The backup has to go
somewhere. Or are you doing the backup to same disk?

automatic backups, without the user having to do anything special.

Yes yes yes. But you are not saying where are those automatic backups
stored.

either the cloud or an external hard drive. all the user needs to do is
enable backups, which is trivial.

on macos, connecting a newly seen hard drive results in this dialog:
https://support.apple.com/library/co...are/images/en_
US/osx/tm_new_drive.png

choose 'use as backup disk'. done. backups are now enabled and
automatic.

there are additional options for those who want to tweak things,
including using a different destination, such as a network drive (more
convenient for laptops) and/or multiple destinations, or to exclude
certain files, but that's not required.

the cloud is even easier, although the initial backup can be time
consuming. some cloud services accept seed drives rather than upload
hundreds of gigabytes.