On 21 Oct 2023 at 17:47, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Date sent: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:47:07 -0700 To: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: iPad file backup? Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: ToddAndMargo via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Copies to: ToddAndMargo <ToddAndMargo@xxxxxxxx> > Hi All, > > Fedora 38 > > My wife has her eye on a new iPad to replace her outgoing > Android tablet. (I can't find any Fedora tablets.) > > Is there a way to backup her working files from an iPad to > Fedora as I can do with her Android? > > Many thanks, > -T Depends on what you mean by backup. There are lots of ways to copy files between different systems. FTP or RSYNC are two easy ones to make copies of files between sytems. Going back to the old days of DOS and original Apple computers there were problems since the disk formats were not compatiable. But even then ftp or local bbs systems would allow for transfer files. Now most OS's can mount other file systems. Linux can generally mount Windows or Mac Filesystems and copy the physical files, though some attributes might no carry over. I've maintained a disk imaging project going back to 2004, and it can create image files at bit level of any OS that linux can see. Now being able to use the files is a different question. What types of files? Programs will probable not be compatible, but just like one can use libreoffice for microsoft files in most cases with a high degree of success. I've had Apple and Windows disk that were unreadable by there OSs, but was able to mount many with Linux and copy files to help people recover data. But sometimes hard errors make that impossible. I generally copy files between my 5 home machines as backups, so a failure isn't huge issue. Recently had a new SSD drive that was under a year old just fail completely. Didn't should up as anything connected to SATA cable or via a USB to SATA, but have everything but one file backedup to other systems, so only had one program I had to redo that took about 45 minutes. > > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Computers are like air conditioners. > They malfunction when you open windows > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue +------------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor (Retired) mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
