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Backups: Sorting Through a Restore
Linux Backups 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...
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Backups: Using `find` Across a Panalopy of Directories
Linux Backups 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...
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Using mbuffer to speed up slow zfs send | zfs receive – EveryCity | Managed...
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...
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Couple of Transfers
Shows many tar-pipe transfers buffered with mbuffer. Remote commands started over ssh.Filed under: Linux Tagged: backups
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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...
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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. Filed under: computing, Linux, Uncategorized Tagged: backups, find, gnarly,...
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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.Filed under: computing, Linux, Uncategorized...
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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...
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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?Filed under: computing, Linux, Uncategorized Tagged: backups, Linux, rsync, scripting,...
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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...
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