Thank you for this great OS

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Hey Guys, I would like to say “Thanks for this wonderfull OS.” It’s clean and lean, easy to use and straight forward. Even for a Beta it is very stable, fast and need much less Resources than Windows and Linux. How I could live without Haiku all the Years before - oh, all the wasted Time.

One of, in my Opinion, best Things Haiku offers are the extended Attributes, Indexes, Queries and the Way one can work with. It’s easy and uncomplicated and I ever missed such Functionality within other Operating Systems. It was such a Mess to do something like this with Windows/Linux. And then there came this little OS and says “Don’t worry - with me you can do that as simple as changing the Name of a File.” Now I am migrated all my Data over to Haiku and it lasted only round about a Year.

Other very usefull Things are Stack and Tile, fast and straight forward GUI, Folder Navigation through Context Menu, Copy to/Move to within the Context Menu. And there are many other good things I like about Haiku.

And because I am done with data migrating I will refresh my spartan and 25 year old c+±Skills and learn about programming this amazing OS.

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Remember Haiku is “still” beta, make sure you have backups for your data. Thanks for the nice review! :+1:

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How do you backup your haiku data, with attributes?

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I don’t have that much data on my system, most of the work there imply working on haikuports recipes, those are backed up at codeberg.

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Some basic options:

  • Zip the things you want to backup from inside Haiku. Backup said .zips wherever you want. The resulting .zip file will “restore” the attributes the next time you unzip it in BFS or other filesystem with support for extended attributes (at least when using BeOS/Haiku unzip).

  • Get a external device (HDD/SSD/pendrive/etc), use DriveSetup in it to create some BFS partitions, backup to that.

  • Use “Installer” (from your current installation), to install into a different device. It will basically “clone” your current setup.

I bet that creating BFS .iso files you could burn into CD/DVDs is also possible (after all, that’s how I made my last backups in BeOS days, and still can access those),

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Yes :+1: but fortunately I don’t need them till now.

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Zip is a good Solution for backing up and preserve the Attributes. Yes, burning BFS formatted Images to an optical Medium is a good Solution too. I do that with Blu-Ray Disks.

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Maybe it sounds a bit unclear :sweat_smile: I mean I make frequently Backups but till now Idon’t need to restore one because no loss of Data happaned.

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Thank you @WynterSkai for using Haiku’s unique features (attributes, Stack and Tile), and not concentrating solely on lightweightness of Haiku.