[Dirvish] Welcome, Mike Beattie!

find bugs, and if you cannot adapt - fork. Back Mike up! If you want push backups, fork your own version and call that new program hsivrid. Whichever way you go from here, it's been a wonderful journey together - you are grand people, one and all.

[Dirvish] Bart Massey [Dirvish Mailinglist and Website]

ny gender, or none. In my limited experience, guys are more likely to use their wedding tackle inappropriately, especially as a thinking device. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com ___ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish

[Dirvish] Dirvish moving forward

espect for the needs and abilities of a broad range of users. We do this to help each other. Be good! Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com ___ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish

Re: [Dirvish] backup a dirvish server?

c to simply rsync with -H > (to preserve hardlinks) the entire vault to another machine? I make daily backups of all my machines to one server, and a second weekend backup to another at a different site. If for some reason the daily server doesn't catch something, the other will. Keith

[Dirvish] Shutting down Dirvish mailing list

that remains, and I must focus on those. I hope the rest of you will have enough time to complete your own important tasks. We are defined by what we make, not by what we take. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com ___ Dirvish mailing

Re: [Dirvish] Problem with dirvish-locate on debian jessie

(while Willy Ley and others ... left). I'm not looking for who to blame, the same thing could have happened to me. Understanding /why/ is how we avoid hurting others with our obsessions. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com - Don't waste your vote in 2016! Give it to the R

Re: [Dirvish] dirvish-locate finds nothing (Debian jessie)

t through a limited range of branches. Matthias, I hope you continue the conversation and provide more specific information for us, so that this mailing list thread will lead to a helpful solution. Otherwise, the question and answers so far will frustrate many other people using search engines to fi

[Dirvish] An RBL tale (ADMINISTRIVIA and backup recovery)

nly here to help each other! Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com ___ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish

[Dirvish] transferring dirvish.org/dirvish.com, RBL

l and helpful people here, it is difficult to imagine that any of us could be so thoughtless. 3) I'll close by saying you are an awesome group of people. It has been a joyful inspiration to help others with you. Never stop helping others. We are why F/OSS works. Keith -- Keith Lofst

Re: [Dirvish] Best way to backup clients, that are not always up

On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 08:23:04PM +0200, Johannes Kastl wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 30.06.14 08:30 Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > > I do have some pre and post scripts that fail per client when the > > machines are down or removed, &

Re: [Dirvish] Best way to backup clients, that are not always up

e has come in handy. I had a laptop drive fail 30 minutes before a presentation at a conference. Fortunately, I had my baby screwdriver and the other drive in my travel bag, and did a drive swap minutes before I went on stage. It was a geek conference so I got extra points for that. :-)

[Dirvish] Any Burning Man participants here?

ing public way? Discussion off the list until we think this through. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com ___ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish

Re: [Dirvish] steps forward for Dirvish?

an accomplishment to brag about. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com ___ Dirvish mailing list Dirvish@dirvish.org http://www.dirvish.org/mailman/listinfo/dirvish

Re: [Dirvish] Migration/Mirror of Dirvish code to github?

hat started. But please keep in mind the installed base, and the consequences of "improvements". FYI, I migrated the wiki to Moin, and can give access to others. The wiki has been abused in the past, so I am judicious but not miserly in my trust. Keith

Re: [Dirvish] Migration/Mirror of Dirvish code to github?

thub. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs ___ Dirvis

Re: [Dirvish] Init fails on one partition, the largest

e with a different machine and different cabling. Or bring it in to the Linux Clinic on Sunday. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contr

Re: [Dirvish] Explanation Needed of Error Message

of space for data. More suggestions follow your observation. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - A

[Dirvish] [administrivia] taming web spiders, particularly Baidu?

four times per hour? Or send them "recent changes" lists instead of them repeatedly downloading the same files? Any other ideas for calming down the web crawlers? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Ci

[Dirvish] hashing backups, timestamping contents

ites. This can be done on the backup machine after backups are complete. Perhaps our community could begin the development of a program for this, and deploy it after Surety's first patents expire. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLI

Re: [Dirvish] list archives

perfect timing holds, you may encounter the same error with another mailing list soon, and you will be able to help that sysadmin fix it. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silic

[Dirvish] ignore - testing list software

this is a test Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _

[Dirvish] Administrivia - Re: moved dirvish wiki ...

op-up explanations, etc. That could allow the non-programmers among us to contribute text and explanations and runtime scripts for dirvish. All pretty vague and handwavy, but there are some smart people here. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KL

Re: [Dirvish] moved dirvish wiki from kwiki to moin

needed after all. Subversion will be most likely to break, since I will be testing browser access first. The mailing list should not be affected. I hope. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your

[Dirvish] moved dirvish wiki from kwiki to moin

unambiguous answers, which a bot can't easily figure out, please email them to me. --- Well, enjoy your new wiki. I spent most of the weekend, and the early part of the last two evenings, making the conversions. I hope to have kwiki (and the wikispammers who use it) off my se

[Dirvish] btrfs, changes, project ownership

business, and working on Server Sky ( http://server-sky.com ). Lots to do. -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and C

[Dirvish] Locking down wiki in 2 days

ore secure. I deploy it for other wikis. However, the translation will have time. For the next three months, I don't have it. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Desi

Re: [Dirvish] Backup size

have run out of inodes, and at the time there were no available tools for efficiently copying data to reformatted partitions. Sigh. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon"

Re: [Dirvish] mysteriously missing snapshots

hing useful. Here is a very old writeup that describes some of my scripts: http://www.keithl.com/linuxbackup.html Needs updating and correcting - six years old! - but it should give you some ideas. BTW, JW disliked the illustration, which is why it is not on the website. Keith -- Keith Lofs

[Dirvish] Dirvish wiki error

er, I am working 18x7 these days, and don't have time to do the content translation. If someone volunteers to move content (cut and paste? yikes!), I can turn on moin.divish.org sometime next week. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC ---

Re: [Dirvish] Has anybody successfully restored a Linux OS (f.i., Ubuntu) with Dirvish?

e called "divish-restore-ultra". A better programmer than I can write it. Similarly, perhaps someone can write a guide to setting up a computer for maximum dirvish/rsync friendliness. But those hypothetical people have more time than I do. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com

Re: [Dirvish] Has anybody successfully restored a Linux OS (f.i. Ubuntu) with Dirvish?

ther. Hopefully the rest of the list, and especially the Debian/Ubuntu folk, can help you further. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and C

Re: [Dirvish] Copying banks

, and especially if you can (optionally) merge the hardlinks of identical files, you would be a hero to me. I just don't know whether there is a good way to do it. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --

[Dirvish] Administrivia: zeusmail.org

I got subscription requests to three of the mailing lists I run for three different names from zeusmail.org. Spamsign; I moderated them. Unless I hear otherwise, I will block that domain. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom

Re: [Dirvish] backups and system load

500 cases with EarthWatt power supplies and extra 120mm slow fans. These cases very quiet and efficient, and with luck the higher efficiency and multiple slow 120mm fans means less waste heat and fewer hot spots. I'll tell you in three years whether they meet my expectations for durab

Re: [Dirvish] Development of Dirvish

o job one for any potential development leader is convincing us. Until then, it works, don't break it. I would love to see many improvements, primarily modularization and testing, but I have neither the time or the skills to make that happen. Look at my home page for my current activities.

Re: [Dirvish] push or pull for client with dynamic ip

are always on the same side of the firewall, this is not a problem. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and S

Re: [Dirvish] singling out crucial data

practice doing restores onto the spares. That way, when a crisis occurs and a new drive has to be built from bare metal, the restore can be done with minimum time and effort (leaving time for all the other simultaneous crises implied by restores). Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keit

[Dirvish] Hard Drive Dock

ugh most reviews were positive. My drive formatted and stored at least a few gigabytes OK, so time will tell. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom kei...@keithl.com Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish jobs that run more than 24 hours

e complex and situation-specific stuff with relatively simple pre- and post- scripts. I should post the scripts I use to the wiki. Real Soon Now. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "

[Dirvish] Dirvish jobs that run more than 24 hours

cascading dirvish error. If some of the backups take more than 24 hours, well, that is better than no backups at all. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contra

Re: [Dirvish] Ideas for cool running external hard drives

ks on the list would like some (let Loren know!). My own long term plan is to go to E-SATA. I assume the drives can be powered down like other ATA drives, and they are faster and better supported than USB. I would like a switch-box for those also, for the extra security involved. Keith --

Re: [Dirvish] The future of Dirvish

of lead glass into land fills every time a picture tube burns out or a television is discarded. Sadly, high defect density in the read valves (a few dozen spots per image) killed the project. The venture capitalists pulled the plug before the process could be improved. However, I expect somebo

Re: [Dirvish] USB drives causing server lockups.(somewhat ontopic)

2 hardware do and don't work. Again, I suggest using E-SATA instead. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipol

Re: [Dirvish] USB drives causing server lockups.(somewhat ontopic)

ese typically cost $20-$40. A PCI-slot 4 port SATA controller is also around $40. Since SATA is becoming cheaper than IDE, and is faster than IDE and USB2, this is the best long term way to go. If you learn something new, add it to the wiki. Good luck! Keith -- Keith Lofstrom

[Dirvish] Administrivia: Yahoo

them decide what to do about it. Those considering getting Yahoo email accounts should keep this behavior in mind. If you want an offsite email address, I suggest moving to a provider with a less uncooperative blend of monopolistic incompetence, like Google's Gmail. Keith -- Keith Lof

[Dirvish] RSH - was: Does Windows rsync work with Dirvish?

y not the best place to ask Slackware/RSH questions. Your best bet is to ask questions on a Slackware list about setting up RSH. There are a few people in the Portland area running Slackware, so you can ask on the Portland Linux User's Group list at http://www.pdxlinux.org . Good luc

[Dirvish] administrivia - small spelling changes to tar and svn for 1.2.1

rsion repository, and rebuilt the dirvish-1.2.1.tar file and the associated md5sum file. Hopefully I got all that right. There should be no functional changes at all in dirvish, and I hope the distributions downstream will pick up on the small changes and the new md5sum checksum. Keith -- Keith Lof

Re: [Dirvish] Can Vaults in Different Banks Have the Same Name?

he mix of old and new versions on different clients can be somewhat unpredictable. Thus, you will want to link-dest to every other client in the same branch, resulting in an N^2 amount of computation and disk lookup. That might be an interesting experiment to try. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EM

[Dirvish] Restoring main server drive, LVM

HOWTO and put it on the dirvish wiki ... Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, D

Re: [Dirvish] Purgeing the evil data

a script file in your home directory and execute it with "sh ~/scriptfile", for extra safety, after scrutinizing it 3 or 4 times. An extra space in there could ruin your whole day ... Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith L

Re: [Dirvish] Full backup every time

rvish is creating huge images and not using hardlinks, filling up your backup disk too fast, there may be other problems. The helpful people on this list can help after you have made an effort characterize your problem. Welcome to dirvish! Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Dirvish] Excessively Long backups on a Postfix Mailder vault with Dovecot as the IMAP server

(kernel used, version of rsync, which controllers and disks, etc) and some of the statistics from the logs, and we might be able to help you with that difficult task. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Y

Re: [Dirvish] Copying dirvish vaults (heavily hard linked)

> On Thursday 06 March 2008 09:21:53 am Keith Lofstrom wrote: ... > > See also the ancient: http://wiki.dirvish.org/index.cgi?CopyingDisks On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:33:52AM -0700, Shawn (Red Mop) wrote: > Tar is actually very fast. I used it to split a bank about a month ago.

[Dirvish] Copying dirvish vaults (heavily hard linked)

t used to double the size of an active partition - scary!), and will try them on a dirvish bank soon. See also the ancient: http://wiki.dirvish.org/index.cgi?CopyingDisks Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuit

Re: [Dirvish] Is this a dumb idea? rsync without ssh

ith a trustworthy SATA to PATA adapter if necessary? A direct drive-to-drive copy will be faster than the network, encrypted or not. Daniel, Audio Precision is not far from me; I probably have some unused swap cages if you want to borrow them for a while. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish occupies the same space on disk for each run as for the initial run

If you don't see behavior approximately like that, perhaps you can share some fragments of your log and summary files with us. Don't send the complete files -- too much to read! Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 K

[Dirvish] File systems ( was Dirvish occupies the same space ... )

on, of course. Perhaps we should collect some data from dirvish users, and see what the ratio of data to inode usage is in various circumstances. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Sili

Re: [Dirvish] Expire removes most recent backup?

to write it, but doesn't trust their English skills, I would be glad to help them edit it. The wiki would be a good place to start. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon

Re: [Dirvish] Expire removes most recent backup?

hat estimates space saved with each delete, and helps the sysadmin understand what may be lost. 3) Safe ways of thoroughly testing (2), and dirvish tools in general. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- &

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish backup controlled by client?

tly and securely. A small pile of USB drives has got to be cheaper than the network and disk bandwidth to get everyone backed up over a coffee break. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Idea

Re: [Dirvish] The wiki is back (2)

More Administrivia: On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 12:28:25PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > Undefined subroutine &Scalar::Util::weaken called at (eval 27) line 4. > at lib/Spoon/Base.pm line 89 > Spoon::Base::__ANON__('Undefined subroutine &Scalar::Util::weaken

Re: [Dirvish] Hauntingly similar to Dirvish

ty good about sharing most things (Rendezvous, for example). Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _

[Dirvish] The wiki is back

calar/Util.pm , where it belonged ). The technique that actually fixed it was forced reloading of Scalar::Util and Spiffy : perl -MCPAN -e shell cpan> force install Spiffy cpan> force install Scalar::Util cpan> quit I don't really understand why that worked, but it did. Unforced ins

Re: [Dirvish] The Wiki Seems To Be Down

nvert the wiki to MoinMoin, which is a well-written and well-supported Python wiki, used by many of my friends. Well, it is time to apply my limited Perl skills to debugging that failure. Thanks ( :-/ ) for pointing it out. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (50

Re: [Dirvish] Combining branches after upgrades

On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 01:59:23AM +0100, Darren Hook wrote: > Hi Keith, > > On 9/29/07, Keith Lofstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since version 2.6.4, rsync has allowed multiple --link-dest target > > directories. If a file is not found in the first --link-dest ta

[Dirvish] Combining branches after upgrades

ption. Perhaps you have better ideas. Perhaps it isn't worth it, because it uses extra disk accesses to save some disk space and network bandwidth, and that may not be a good tradeoff. What do you think? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --

Re: [Dirvish] Seeding vault

reative, perhaps by faking the image metadata using a text editor, based on an existing example. The files are not too complicated. If you figure that out, let us know. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circu

Re: [Dirvish] SATA hot swap, PATA bridge

> Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > Many different SATA-PATA bridge boards are available. Perhaps some > > of you would like to try some of the other possibilities. With all > > the different options, I expect some will fail, either immediately > > or after a few hours, but

[Dirvish] SATA hot swap, PATA bridge

Many different SATA-PATA bridge boards are available. Perhaps some of you would like to try some of the other possibilities. With all the different options, I expect some will fail, either immediately or after a few hours, but it would help to learn what works. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom

Re: [Dirvish] Hot Swap SATA - Air gap

Keith Lofstrom wrote: ... > This means that some of my backups are "protected by air gap" from ... On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 04:41:28PM -0400, Damian Cunniff wrote: > At the risk of sounding dumb (which I am) and drifting off topic (which > this does) can you explain what you me

[Dirvish] Hot Swap SATA

ot swap is supported by the kernel, if appropriate commands are run before and after the swap. Is anyone actually doing this? If not, would anyone like to try? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your I

Re: [Dirvish] Offsite Disks

haps there is some good way to encrypt the offsite storage to reduce risks. Any comments? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS -

Re: [Dirvish] Creating Backups with image-default: %Y%m%d/%Y%m%d-%H_%M

to replace the "mkdir" in the dirvish script with something that will do "mkdir -p" properly, and that can go into a patch of dirvish, and a future version of dirvish if enough dirvish users want to participate to make that happen. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Dirvish] Tips for low-bandwidth backups

good ...). Learn about what is actually happening, and think through what you want to make happen, and you will find your solution. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" De

[Dirvish] Dirvish list - working now?

/test , and start posting messages to that whenever you think something might be broken. Thanks; Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMO

[Dirvish] testing dirvish list - please ignore

Testing the list - it was not mailing out from my server. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, an

[Dirvish] Dirvish and Windows alternatives

on the wiki. Open source is not "zero-cost" software; you pay with your participation. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bip

[Dirvish] Turning off prelink

On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 03:58:41PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: ... > I am going to revert my systems with prelink -ra, then turn it off, > then run another set of "checksum: 1" backups. Yes, prelink speeds ... On another list, Jon Peatfield of Cambridge University pointed out

Re: [Dirvish] checksum=0 may be causing inaccurate backups!!!

Keith Lofstrom - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, a request! Could some of you try adding the line: > >checksum: 1 > >To your dirvish master.conf file, so that dirvish runs this way >over the weekend? On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 07:46:30PM +0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I

[Dirvish] Val Henson's LWN article on hard drive failure

thought-provoking article that most of you should read. It provides some real-world data to help make decisions about backups and the type of drives to do them on. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits

[Dirvish] Before doing checksum=1, read this

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:21:42PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > So, a request! Could some of you try adding the line: > > checksum: 1 After too little sleep, I woke from a nightmare about hard drives overheating. Checksum=1 /really/ thrashes the source and the target hard dr

Re: [Dirvish] checksum=0 may be causing inaccurate backups!!!

yte. The 6X worst case is when both the source and backup drives are on the same machine. It's all read time, at 1.2GB/minute in some cases, and that can take a LONG time. BTW, I woke to nightmares about this, see the major warning in the next message before doing "checksum=1=".

[Dirvish] checksum=0 may be causing inaccurate backups!!!

her time. Backup, file updates, and file integrity are three aspects of what is really one problem. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar

Re: [Dirvish] Moving Dirvish Vaults (Was: Tuning my expiration dates)

sks BTW, while we are on the subject of the wiki, many of our users are German speakers. If someone can suggest a good organization for a parallel set of German pages (or Dutch, or Chinese, or Sanskrit), and wants to start translating, that would be "extra sausages" for me! :-

[Dirvish] administrivia - user moderated - Richard B has sent...

r his mail to the list for a while. I cannot promise to always keep the list spam free, but I will remove spammers as soon as I can practically do so. The rules: 1) dirvish/rsync/disk/backup related, please 2) no spam 3) no html-only email Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Dirvish] Tuning my expiration dates

The bottom line is that you need enough storage to do this, and rsync, the core of dirvish, doesn't do everything well. For the vast bulk of your files, it is magic. For giant files, all it can do is make new daily copies of them, chewing up disk space rapidly. I hope that helps .

[Dirvish] test 6 to new dirvish.org server (ignore)

Busy people hit "n" now. If you get this, it means the dirvish mailing list shows some signs of life on the new server. If it shows up in the archives, the list is even more lively. If you do not get this, you are forbidden to read it! :-) Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL

[Dirvish] test 4 to new dirvish.org server (ignore)

Busy people hit "n" now. If you get this, it means the dirvish mailing list shows some signs of life on the new server. If you don't get this, you are forbidden to read it! :-) Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofs

[Dirvish] Moving server - flaky dirvish list for a few days

I am moving to a larger virtual server, and from a RHEL 4 to a RHEL 5 clone. The dirvish mailing list may be shaky for a few days. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon&qu

Re: [Dirvish] USB Connected Drives - speed and reliability

backup drives occasionally, to protect some of the backups from vandalism, power supply failure, etc. USB2 storage makes it possible, and the speed and robustness is getting better with time. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Int

[Dirvish] USB Connected Drives - speed and reliability

add to it. I am especially interested in USB2 to IDE smart cables, cheap/fast/good . Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" D

[Dirvish] Wiki now editable with captcha

i, but the captcha gets us back on line for now. Captcha isn't perfect, but it should slow down at least some of the bots so I can do something besides clean up after them. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Cir

Re: [Dirvish] Adding features to dirvish

the toy environments and automated tests are complete, but right now all I see are people talking about it, but not taking responsibility for doing it (and I am afraid that includes me). So, either somebody volunteers to writes the automated tests, or a bunch of somebodies volunteer to test

[Dirvish] Adding features to dirvish

testing their changes in multiple environments. I will help with the testing myself, and can devote an experimental dirvish server to trying out new code. Who else will participate in testing? Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integ

[Dirvish] Administrivia: wiki.dirvish.org with Typekey authentication

n, setting up both mysql and php and locking them down. I am still seriously considering TWiki, which is evolving rapidly and has many good features, but I am waiting for a simpler but authenticated skin. Kwiki is getting full time support now, so I expect it to improve fast) -- Keit

Re: [Dirvish] Wiki down??

Sunday, and you sysadmins running mixed shops can plan on a week or two of hell. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and

[Dirvish] Administrivia - Changing the wiki

ons. Note there are plenty of other wiki options; most involve a language change. If I am making changes, I will change to a well known option, and MediaWiki is the best known. Hence the two options, please don't argue for a third. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Dirvish] Dirvish wiki temporarily frozen

the pages. :-/ Oh well, this is what happens when you allow psychopaths near computers. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analo

Re: [Dirvish] #Dirvish irc channel now available on freenode.net

7;t IRC myself, but if folks tell me this is working out OK, I will put a link on the website. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMO

Re: [Dirvish] Is there a Dirvish IRC channel??

won't maintain an IRC channel on dirvish.org, but I would be glad to point at one on another host, if someone else takes responsibility for it. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in

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