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Recommendations for #Linux storage server?

I’ve got an embedded 800mhz Via system that I’m going to retrofit with a 2TB drive for catching backups. I used to run CentOS 3.5 on there but those days are long gone. I’d rather run a rolling...

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Backups: Using rsync and find.

I’m doing a talk at Linuxfest Northwest on making Very Sexy Backup Scripts. This is because you are more empowered when you know your filesystem and a little bit of bash scripting on your sweet linux...

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Backups: outline

Here’s some basic programs and techniques I’ll be covering about backups. tar rsync find date how to write “now” using date how to find files newer than your last backup all this will be done in bash...

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Backups: using tar and find

If you are familiar with zip files, they are the DOS version of tar files (tar = Tape Archive). The tar utility is totally intended for storing backups. A quick way to backup your home directory is: cd...

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Backups: one quick file backup alias

When you have a file you need to edit and you have the foresight to think, “whoa, make a copy before I destroy…” you often copy hulk.txt to hulk.txt.old (that’s using the minimum of keystrokes: cp...

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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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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...

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