Using Apple Backup quickpicks?

[willismorse]

Originally Posted by dnanian

Copy Scripts are basically just like Quick Picks, William. But -- there's honestly little point in doing this. We seriously suggest that you always use "Backup - all files". That'll get address book and everything else, and update it really quickly: you don't need to be selective, because space is cheap... but your data isn't.

Make sense?

(In the QuickPick you presented, they backed up the various parts of Address Book's data -- its preferences (x3) and the data itself (x1).)

Sure, I'd use this in addition to a full backup. Backing up to an iDisk or any kind of networked drive, or into a disk image for burning onto optical disk is another safety net. But bandwidth and space limitations mean I have to do very selective subsets. Backup has a "Personal Data" set that I was doing to my iDisk daily, which was a good compromise for me.

Anyway, I just thought it might nice to leverage off Apple and other's work itemizing these sets. I haven't looked at the copy scripts yet, maybe it's easy to just convert quickpicks to copy scripts.

Thanks,
- Will