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Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 16:09:57 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Richard Beck" <richard.beck@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: Esteemed Colleagues
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Attached.  You'll note that it expects the USB drive to be mounted
on /media/usb0 and have a directory /var/local on it.  It currently
creates 5 backup tar balls.

Cheers,

a

On Fri, 11 May 2007 07:26:56 -0700 "Richard Beck"
<richard.beck@onstor.com> wrote:

> A little peace of mind goes a long way...
> Send me your shell script S.V.P.
> --rb
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 9:31 AM
> To: dl-Software
> Subject: Esteemed Colleagues
> 
> 
> > Dear Esteemed Colleagues,
> 
> Who?
> 
> Anyway, I almost forgot why I mentioned that I have my own little
> home-brew backup for my workstation -- so I could offer it to other
> people!  People who want to take their fate into their own hands,
> rather than waiting for armaggedon or something.  That was a lousy
> movie too.
> 
> All that you need is a USB drive (I got a laptop hard drive USB
> adaptor and a spare 40GB laptop disk I had laying about the house) and
> you can back up your workstation. You can get the shell script from
> me, and if you have to replace your workstation or it's hard drive,
> you can simply boot off a Knoppix CD, which you can also get from me
> or the internet, and restore your disk and you're back in business in
> no time. It also is handy if you farkle up something on your local
> drive and wish you had a copy of it from, oh, say, last week.
> 
> I run my backup every Friday, but it can easily be run more often.  It
> takes an hour or two, but it's not like I have to wait for it or stop
> what I'm doing.  The 40GB disk is large enough to hold 5 complete
> backups (compressed, of course), as long as I don't have too many DVD
> iso images or similar, large uncompressable things on my disk.
> 
> It gives me a lot of piece of mind, especially since I keep NFS root
> filesystems and other things that took me a lot of time to create and
> perfect, but don't necessarily modify daily, on my local hard drive.
> If I goof up or my hard drive dies, at least I have a copy from last
> Friday I can start with.  Some people keep their source trees on the
> local hard drive.  It might really suck to lose that work.
> 
> If you want it, I'll give you the shell script, which can be run from
> cron or by hand, and any other details you might want.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> a

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