Hi Clive,
Item 1 ..Thanks to David for arranging the visit to C4L on Wednesday,
surprised no one has commented yet; I enjoyed the visit and was
impressed with the thought and implementation behind installation of
the CC.
Agreed. I emailed Phil, the one who did most of the talking, to thank
Hi jr,
cd /mediasudo rsync -a home Backup
It may be worth adding `H' to `-a' to make `-aH' in case there's lots of
hard links. The extra space needed by not preserving them could cause
problems. On the other hand, spotting the existing hard links takes
time and space itself.
Cheers,
hi Ralph,
cd /media sudo rsync -a home Backup
It may be worth adding `H' to `-a' to make `-aH' in case there's lots of
hard links.
yes, and perhaps '-S' (your command catered for sparse files) and '-v' too.
I only mentioned 'rsync' because I think it's more efficient (works
Hi jr,
I only mentioned 'rsync' because I think it's more efficient (works
incrementally), and 'future-proof' in that it will be easy to modify
should Clive decide to backup to a NAS or another computer.
When it's copying within the one machine, I think it hammers CPU a bit
more because it
hi Ralph,
Without -c it relies on length and modification time to decide if the
destination is out of date, IIRC. And even with -c I've had occasion
where it thinks nothing needs doing yet the SHA1 digests differ. So I
now use sha1sum(1) at the end to double-check.
has not happened to me
Item 1 ..Thanks to David for arranging the visit to C4L on Wednesday,
surprised no one has commented yet; I enjoyed the visit and was
impressed with the thought and implementation behind installation of the
CC. Bought back memories of previous jobs I had worked on.
The Hogs Head was a bit
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