On May 3, 2004, at 11:17 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
Oh, certainly - you can interrupt basically anything at all on the
computer with sleep, and it will simply continue where it left off. I
do this all the time with compilations, long-running scientific
experiments, regression tests, etc. on my Pow
On May 3, 2004, at 5:18 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
Hi Jerry,
I used "sudo psync -d / /Volumes/backup" and it worked real nice. I
kind of like watching
it work while I do other things. If my powerbook were to sleep in the
middle of it, would it break something or would it just pick up where
it l
On May 3, 2004, at 6:37 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
Hmmm, maybe it will work... I started the following shell script
#!/bin/sh
i=1
while true
do
echo $i
i=`expr $i + 1 `
done
I forced the system to sleep for a few seconds, woke it up and the
script kept on trucking...
Oh, certainly - you can interrupt b
I think this question has come up before, but if there is an API for
the Energy Saving settings (or whatever those are in English), I think
I'd want to have my backup script set the system to not sleep while
the backup was in progress, and then restore the setting when done.
Until that part is
Hi Jerry,
I used "sudo psync -d / /Volumes/backup" and it worked real nice. I
kind of like watching
it work while I do other things. If my powerbook were to sleep in the
middle of it, would it break something or would it just pick up where
it left off?
Joe.
On May 3, 2004, at 6:54 AM, Jerry
Heh, Heh,
I was hoping someone would answer that question, my totally uninformed
guess
is that something bad *could* happen...but I don't know...
Let us know :)
Jerry
On May 3, 2004, at 5:18 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
Hi Jerry,
I used "sudo psync -d / /Volumes/backup" and it worked real nice. I
Hmmm, maybe it will work... I started the following shell script
#!/bin/sh
i=1
while true
do
echo $i
i=`expr $i + 1 `
done
I forced the system to sleep for a few seconds, woke it up and the
script kept on trucking...
Jerry
On May 3, 2004, at 5:18 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
Hi Jerry,
I used "sudo psyn
Hmmm, maybe it will work... I started the following shell script
#!/bin/sh
i=1
while true
do
echo $i
i=`expr $i + 1 `
done
I forced the system to sleep for a few seconds, woke it up and the
script kept on trucking...
While you always want to avoid doing things that push the limits of the
system wh
I can't think of any reason why not :), If you examine the source to
psync
you will find the documentation embedded near the end. If you installed
DejaVu, look in /usr/local/bin for psync. I think the help even gives
a command for copying an entire volume.
Let us know how it turns out...
Jerry
On
Jerry,
On May 1, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
You might try one more time, the first time takes the longest,
subsequent invocations
just looks at differences...
I can't think of any reason why the program is chewing cpu after the
task is finished.
It works by calling psync ( a perl progr
You might try one more time, the first time takes the longest,
subsequent invocations
just looks at differences...
I can't think of any reason why the program is chewing cpu after the
task is finished.
It works by calling psync ( a perl program to do the copying and
adjusting permissions).
I b
Greetings,
Taking Jerry's recommendation, I downloaded DejaVu and ran it last
night. It started about 10pm and at 12:30pm it was still running and I
went to bed, (my energy savings preferences were set to dvd playback).
I couldn't see any progress bar, although it said it had one. When I
awok
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