On 28/11/2008, at 8:02 PM, Ben Donohue wrote:
hard drives very commonly won't spin up. if you can get them to spin
up then they tend to allow you to get all the data off.
The way to get it to spin up is to remove it from the computer,
attach the cables, turn on the computer and rotate the
Hi all,
As promised here are the backup notes from my talk at SLUG on 28 Nov.
Materials related to this talk are at
http://users.puzzling.org/users/mary/Presentations/SLUG2008/ (including
a version of these notes).
A note about style: this is a set of recommendations purely based on the
fact
Mary Gardiner wrote:
2. Install the program called rdiff-backup.
All excellent suggestions Mary. Sorry I missed the talk. As an additions
to rdiff-backup, people might benefit from using backupninja. Its a
front end to rdiff-backup and other backup tools (like mysqldump). That
makes it
On 28/11/2008, at 11:56 PM, Mary Gardiner wrote:
See http://jwz.livejournal.com/801607.html for someting similar (and
the
partial inspiration for the talk), although rsync doesn't save older
data, which I definitely recommend.
Very minor nitpick, rsync can save older data, and put them in
On Friday 28 November 2008 21:58:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My two-week-old sole hard drive has failed.
I know this is more than a software thing, because the drive's not found
either during boot-up or by fdisk. The clincher is that it keeps making a
sound like the sound that you hear from
On 2008-11-28, Michael Chesterton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very minor nitpick, rsync can save older data, and put them in
whatever dir you want.
before rdiff-backup i used to use rsync --backup --backup-dir=$date-
based-dir
Thanks for that: I am guessing from the rsync man page though that
On 29/11/2008, at 9:59 AM, Mary Gardiner wrote:
On 2008-11-28, Michael Chesterton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Very minor nitpick, rsync can save older data, and put them in
whatever dir you want.
before rdiff-backup i used to use rsync --backup --backup-dir=$date-
based-dir
Thanks for that: I
