Re: [luau] Looking for an article
Nope, still looking... When I find it, I'll post a link. Cheers and Happy New Year, Ben On Thursday 02 January 2003 06:04 am, you wrote: > Did you ever find that article? If so could you pass on the URL? > I just used rsync -avr to transfer stuff from two old partitions over to a > new drive on the same machine. Worked great. > >
Re: [luau] Looking for an article
On Sunday 29 December 2002 07:44 pm, Ben Beeson wrote: > Aloha, > > Recently I saw an article where the author used an extra hard drive and > rsync (I think) to automatically back up his system. Now I can't find it, > and I may be interested in doing something like this myself on my home > boxes. Does anyone recall seeing this article??? http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/ There is probably better out there, but, this is a how-to that I emailed to myself back in September. I hope it helps a smidgeon. scott
Re: [luau] Looking for an article
Did you ever find that article? If so could you pass on the URL? I just used rsync -avr to transfer stuff from two old partitions over to a new drive on the same machine. Worked great. On a side note.. I now completely dislike Western Digital hard drives. This is more of a personal choice and not a technical one as I know every drive fails eventually and everyone has good and bad experiences from every manufactor. My current luck with WD has been very bad. I've sent at least 5 drives back to them in the last 3 years, all home use. Now that the standard warranty is 1 year, it is not worth it. My recent WD 30GB failure was the final straw. Even though I bought it in a retail box at BestBuy and it claims one year warranty, when I entered the serial number at the WD web site it claimed OEM and no warranty. The first time it failed I was able to clear an error via VooDoo magic with the supplied WD tools on a boot floppy. It worked for a almost a month or so but yesterday it started clacking again, it was bad enough that the sytem would not boot with it plugged in. I was able to phyically disconnect it and reconnect it to get it going again long enough to pull all the data off but in my mind the reliability is too questionable to be used from what I need (mainly mounted as /home on my 24/7 Samba server). I have done cable swaps and controller swaps since the first time it failed so I believe that is not the issue. Maybe I'll keep it in the machine and use it as a backup, what are the chances of it failing AND the new Maxtor failing? HAHAHA. On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Ben Beeson wrote: > Aloha, > > Recently I saw an article where the author used an extra hard drive and > rsync (I think) to automatically back up his system. Now I can't find it, > and I may be interested in doing something like this myself on my home boxes. > Does anyone recall seeing this article??? > > Thanks, > > Ben > ___ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau >
Re: [luau] Looking for an article
Mahalo! Ben On Monday 30 December 2002 03:51 pm, you wrote: > On Sunday 29 December 2002 07:44 pm, Ben Beeson wrote: > > Aloha, > > > > Recently I saw an article where the author used an extra hard drive and > > rsync (I think) to automatically back up his system. Now I can't find > > it, and I may be interested in doing something like this myself on my > > home boxes. Does anyone recall seeing this article??? > > I didn't see the article, but can attest to the sheer greatness of rsync. > We use it at work to sync 14 servers, and it certainly can be used locally. > It is efficient and quick. > > dean > > > ___ > LUAU mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/luau
Re: [luau] Looking for an article
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