Re: [Dirvish] Problems w/ pre-server command...

2006-09-10 Thread Keith Lofstrom
rrier to bad things happening. However, this may not work for some 2.6 kernels. If we can get the 1.3.x version moving, it will make a good platform for folding some of these behaviors into dirvish itself. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith

Re: [Dirvish] Separate time for single server backup?

2006-09-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
you want into your own shell scripts, including run times at any interval you want, and dependent on system and network conditions and machine availability. However, you should keep it simple, and use the Runall section to save time and confusion, if it will do the job. Keith -- Keith Lofst

Re: [Dirvish] Separate time for single server backup?

2006-09-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
me. dirvish-expire should be able to use --config and use a different master.conf file. Time to get off my rear end and finish the rework on version 1.3.1 . Any helpers want commit access to the subversion archive? Most particularly, any helpers that run dirvish-expire (which I don&

[Dirvish] Administrivia: Mail times for dirvish list

2006-09-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:02:15PM -0400, Jon Radel wrote: > Dave Howorth wrote: > > Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > > PS There appears to be something wrong with the time on your message. It > > claims to have been sent several hours before mine was sent :) > > His co

[Dirvish] Push backups and Mac file systems

2006-09-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
otely. I've concluded I can't easily do a network backup for it, because of the file system differences and because of DSL assymetrical bandwidth issues. So she gets a little USB drive for local backups, and runs whatever local software that makes sense. No backup tool is good for all task

Re: [Dirvish] Re: ssh as root going away

2006-09-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
re in keeping with the spirit of Sarbanes Oxley. -- 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] Mounting twice - nope

2006-09-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 12:21:22PM -0700, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > > PS - on a related note, is it possible to safely mount the same Linux > file system twice, once the normal way and the second time read-only > on a different mount point? I have done this accidentally, but I

Re: [Dirvish] Exclude backup from dirvish-expire

2006-10-16 Thread Keith Lofstrom
{ $File::Find::prune = 1; return 0; } ... This tells the Perl "find" function to stop exploring directories named 'tree'. A little kludgy, but fast. In the longer term, though, it is better if

Re: [Dirvish] dirvish: no incremental on Mac OS 10.4

2006-10-25 Thread Keith Lofstrom
ause I want to do network backups on my sister's computer and rsync and dirvish are the only practical way to move daily backups many miles. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Inte

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish mount /boot.. is it possible?

2006-10-25 Thread Keith Lofstrom
o do this once per run, on the dirvish server, and you are backing up multiple vaults, then the easiest thing to do is to write a shell script with something like: #!/bin/bash /bin/mount /boot /usr/local/sbin/dirvish-runall /bin/umount /boot Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish mount /boot.. is it possible?

2006-10-25 Thread Keith Lofstrom
le. Then you can do the mount and unmount in pre-client and post-client scripts on the client, without all the messy ssh stuff. That will be a little cleaner for backups, but restores will be more counterintuitive. So, the server script approach is a bit less nasty overall. Test the two appr

[Dirvish] Macs and UFS and Rsync and Dirvish

2006-10-27 Thread Keith Lofstrom
y the operating system underneath. If rsync or the API are inadequate, there is not much we can do to dirvish to work around that. I would really like to see solutions, I want to back up a 10.4 system too. Not yet. :-( Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520

[Dirvish] Mac OSX and power problems and winter

2006-10-31 Thread Keith Lofstrom
e for the electric thermostat, and the dirvish startup time, so that the furnace does not turn on while dirvish is running. After all, I have the computers running rsync to keep the house warm at night. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC ---

[Dirvish] Spaces in source files - redux

2006-11-10 Thread Keith Lofstrom
- input>< ERROR: no source tree defined -- Ponder this patch. There is probably an easier way. I plan to put it into the 1.3.X, which I have neglected for a long time but plan to work on this weekend. I could use some help, BTW, we need better programm

[Dirvish] Dirvish index files

2006-12-12 Thread Keith Lofstrom
e; if the image is expired, so is the index file. However, you can (if you wish) build a script that runs on the server after dirvish runs (a "post-server" script) that makes a copy of the index script into another directory and keeps those permanently. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom

[Dirvish] Expires on the same day

2006-12-20 Thread Keith Lofstrom
er. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contra

Re: [Dirvish] Backing up to remote computer that has rsync

2006-12-26 Thread Keith Lofstrom
onsider installing perl and running dirvish from there. Perhaps you can run everything from a chroot jail and not need full root access at the remote end. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas

[Dirvish] Absolute versus relative path names for dirvish

2007-01-02 Thread Keith Lofstrom
vironment. We probably should emphasize this more in the documentation so it doesn't surprise so many people. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contrac

Re: [Dirvish] Dirvish over Telnet

2007-01-03 Thread Keith Lofstrom
ish, so I suspect ssh will be the least of your problems. I know how hard it is to upgrade distros (I am moving a machine from RH9 to an RHEL4 clone now) but sometimes you have to do it, or some evil twit on the internet will "upgrade" your ancient and exploit-heavy system for you. :-(

Re: [Dirvish] Repair failed image.. is it possible?

2007-01-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
e out what is happening from the tcpdump logs, then pick an easier-to-understand application than rsync. Good luck. Network problems are a pain. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circ

[Dirvish] Windows machines, dirvish/rsync, and vmware

2007-01-12 Thread Keith Lofstrom
rectory that dirvish/rsync ignores, then occasionally copy them into a directory that dirvish does back up ( and with every change, another 300MB or so used up on the backup drive, I don't back up these big blobs often). -- Keith Lofstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice (503)-520-199

Re: [Dirvish] Windows machines, dirvish/rsync, and vmware

2007-01-16 Thread Keith Lofstrom
On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:50:06PM -0800, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > I am not running XP or Vista, but I do run Windows 98 as a guest > image under VMware on one of my machines. More precisely, I use > vmplayer, which is free, and does a pretty good job as a virtualizer. > > vmwar

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

2007-02-15 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2007-02-23 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

[Dirvish] Dirvish wiki temporarily frozen

2007-02-28 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

[Dirvish] Administrivia - Changing the wiki

2007-03-05 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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]

Re: [Dirvish] Wiki down??

2007-03-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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: wiki.dirvish.org with Typekey authentication

2007-03-30 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

[Dirvish] Adding features to dirvish

2007-04-12 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

Re: [Dirvish] Adding features to dirvish

2007-04-13 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Wiki now editable with captcha

2007-05-10 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

[Dirvish] USB Connected Drives - speed and reliability

2007-05-16 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2007-05-17 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Moving server - flaky dirvish list for a few days

2007-05-21 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2007-05-22 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] test 6 to new dirvish.org server (ignore)

2007-05-22 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

Re: [Dirvish] Tuning my expiration dates

2007-05-26 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] administrivia - user moderated - Richard B has sent...

2007-05-27 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Moving Dirvish Vaults (Was: Tuning my expiration dates)

2007-05-29 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] checksum=0 may be causing inaccurate backups!!!

2007-06-20 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] checksum=0 may be causing inaccurate backups!!!

2007-06-21 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Before doing checksum=1, read this

2007-06-21 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2007-06-21 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2007-06-22 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Turning off prelink

2007-06-23 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

[Dirvish] Dirvish and Windows alternatives

2007-06-23 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] testing dirvish list - please ignore

2007-08-02 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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 list - working now?

2007-08-04 Thread Keith Lofstrom
/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

Re: [Dirvish] Tips for low-bandwidth backups

2007-08-06 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2007-08-22 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Offsite Disks

2007-08-23 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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 -

[Dirvish] Hot Swap SATA

2007-09-10 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Hot Swap SATA - Air gap

2007-09-10 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] SATA hot swap, PATA bridge

2007-09-20 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] SATA hot swap, PATA bridge

2007-09-20 Thread Keith Lofstrom
> 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

Re: [Dirvish] Seeding vault

2007-09-25 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

[Dirvish] Combining branches after upgrades

2007-09-29 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Combining branches after upgrades

2007-09-30 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

Re: [Dirvish] The Wiki Seems To Be Down

2007-11-10 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

[Dirvish] The wiki is back

2007-11-10 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Hauntingly similar to Dirvish

2007-11-10 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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 _

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

2007-11-10 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Dirvish backup controlled by client?

2007-12-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Expire removes most recent backup?

2008-01-05 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Expire removes most recent backup?

2008-01-05 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2008-01-27 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Dirvish occupies the same space on disk for each run as for the initial run

2008-01-27 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2008-03-05 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

[Dirvish] Copying dirvish vaults (heavily hard linked)

2008-03-06 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Copying dirvish vaults (heavily hard linked)

2008-03-06 Thread Keith Lofstrom
> 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.

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

2008-03-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
(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] Full backup every time

2008-03-21 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Purgeing the evil data

2008-03-22 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

[Dirvish] Restoring main server drive, LVM

2008-03-24 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Can Vaults in Different Banks Have the Same Name?

2008-03-25 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] administrivia - small spelling changes to tar and svn for 1.2.1

2008-03-25 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2008-03-25 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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: Yahoo

2008-08-18 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2008-08-20 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2008-08-21 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] The future of Dirvish

2008-09-25 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Ideas for cool running external hard drives

2008-10-02 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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 --

[Dirvish] Dirvish jobs that run more than 24 hours

2008-12-09 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Dirvish jobs that run more than 24 hours

2008-12-10 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Hard Drive Dock

2009-03-14 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] singling out crucial data

2009-06-23 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2009-07-29 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Development of Dirvish

2009-08-04 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] backups and system load

2009-09-10 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

[Dirvish] Administrivia: zeusmail.org

2009-11-04 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Copying banks

2010-01-20 Thread Keith Lofstrom
, 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 --

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

2010-06-19 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] Has anybody successfully restored a Linux OS (f.i., Ubuntu) with Dirvish?

2010-06-20 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

[Dirvish] Dirvish wiki error

2010-06-21 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] mysteriously missing snapshots

2010-07-26 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

Re: [Dirvish] Backup size

2010-07-28 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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"

[Dirvish] Locking down wiki in 2 days

2010-09-20 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

[Dirvish] btrfs, changes, project ownership

2010-12-13 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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] moved dirvish wiki from kwiki to moin

2011-01-25 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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

2011-01-26 Thread Keith Lofstrom
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

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