Tag: backups
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Robocopy Notes
Install cmder: It’s the nicest shell I’ve seen for windows. Run your console as Administrator. Otherwise you can’t use the /B backup switch. Also rember you need to do a net use command as administrator. Before you robocopy stuff, setup a dedicated drive letter. The drive letter is only available to the logged in session.…
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Backing up with tar or rsync? [Freedompenguin]
There’s a decision to make when you want to write your scripts when it’s time to back things up: use tar or rsync?
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Crazy Times with zxfer
I’ve started using zxfer that @AllanJude referred me to recently. It does a nice job. My main difficulty was how to get it to work efficiently over the 10Mbps that’s my effective DSL speed. First, I made a copy of zxfer (zmxfer) that incorporates mbuffer. This is a crude hack, but helps me ensure that…
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Finding the Offending Directories | FreedomPenguin
Sometimes you really don’t want to back up certain things on a computer. I wrote this article to show how I diagnose when too much is being backed up.
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Finding Recent Files | FreedomPenguin
Here starts my new series of articles on making backups on the command-line. The heart of the process is the “find” program.
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Time Machine on a network drive
Helping a friend setup time machine backups to his new NAS device. Reasonable howto so far. Time Machine on a network drive. Unfortunately, when you see some of the examples of how to get ‘computer name’ and ‘drive name,’ you might not get familysomething.local as your hostname, it might be ‘familysomething.routerbrand.com.’ Why familysomething would gain…
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Using mbuffer to speed up slow zfs send | zfs receive – EveryCity | Managed Hosting Services
This is an awesome bit of advice! I just sped up a zfs send that was crawling along at 60Mbps to over 600Mbps … I’m so stoked! zfs send -i data/filesystem@1 data/filesystem@2 | mbuffer -s 128k -m 1G -O 10.0.0.1:9090 via Using mbuffer to speed up slow zfs send | zfs receive – EveryCity |…
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Backups: Using `find` Across a Panalopy of Directories
I love using the find command. In DOS, find is like grep. In Linux, find is the most powerful recursive DOS dir /s or Linux ls -r command you could ever put your saddle on. One of the things you can do with find is to avoid directories, using the -prune switch. Like so: find…
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Backups: Sorting Through a Restore
When you need to be rough with your data–change a bunch of files at once…and you might not do it right the first time. Or you need to recover something that grew a few bad sectors and you only have a bits of your file left. Do you have to restore ALL your work? How…
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