Tag: backup
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Making Backups of What’s Recent
You probably don’t need to backup your whole hard drive every day. Just back up what you changed recently.
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Backups failed last night? Oh, yeah–blame Comcast
This is not the first time I’ve had mysterious backup transfers fail. So I installed Smokeping. And it was clear that Comcast dropped Internet at our office.
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Disk Performance Analysis on Linux
Really Into the Guts of LinuxIt is possible to find out how hard your disks are running. Some you don’t want to run as hard as others. For instance, if you wanted to save on write cycles for your SSD you could move small frequent writes into a ram filesystem, and that seems to be…
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Recreating my Backup Pool
Sing out if you know what I’m doing with this one command: zpool create -f -o ashift=12 tank \raidz ata-Hitachi_HTS547575A9E384_J2190059G5PXYC-part1 ata-Hitachi_HTS547575A9E384_J2190059G6GMGC-part1 ata-Hitachi_HTS547575A9E384_J2190059G6LUDC-part1 \raidz ata-Hitachi_HTS547575A9E384_J2190059G95JPC-part1 ata-Hitachi_HTS547575A9E384_J2190059G95REC-part1 ata-Hitachi_HTS547575A9E384_J2190059G9LH9C-part1 \raidz ata-Hitachi_HTS547575A9E384_J2190059G9PDPC-part1 ata-Hitachi_HTS547575A9E384_J2190059G9SBBC-part1 ata-TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD050_933PTT0ZT \raidz ata-TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD050_933PTT11T ata-TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD050_933PTT12T ata-TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD050_933PTT13T \raidz ata-TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD050_933PTT14T ata-TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD050_933PTT15T ata-TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD050_933PTT17T \log /dev/sda5 \cache /dev/sda6 \spare ata-TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD050_X3EJSVUNS ata-TOSHIBA_MQ01ABD050_X3EJSVUOS