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Forum: General 12-06-2009, 03:14 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 10,329
Posted By Syzygies
I'm having a bit of cognitive dissonance here....

I'm having a bit of cognitive dissonance here. I've also been following recently the release of a new programming language, "go" by several of Google's best and brightest. Many people are in an...
Forum: General 12-04-2009, 11:05 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 10,329
Posted By Syzygies
"Ignore" doesn't mean "Ignore"

I've just wasted the past hour, taking the term "Ignore" at its word. "Smart Update" is literally a faster erase-then-copy, which means that "Ignore" never means "leave alone what's there".

Let me...
Forum: General 11-23-2009, 09:42 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 10,329
Posted By Syzygies
Cloning system while preserving target identity (e.g. DynDNS)

Is there a master thread here to collect facts relevant to cloning a system while preserving the identity of the target machine?

I have a growing number of Macs (the new Mac mini rocks hooked up...
Forum: General 02-22-2008, 12:44 PM
Replies: 0
Views: 14,629
Posted By Syzygies
SuperDuper! and MacFUSE/sshfs Howto

SuperDuper! works well with MacFUSE/sshfs, for backing up to a Linux file server.
MacFUSE is just barely 1.0 software, that just barely provides the intended
illusion of a locally mounted volume,...
Forum: General 10-13-2007, 11:53 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 15,667
Posted By Syzygies
This is my usual practice. However, all three...

This is my usual practice. However, all three disk failures that have threatened my data have involved laptop drives that died without warning. I have bought the largest drive that will fit in my...
Forum: General 10-11-2007, 02:09 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 15,667
Posted By Syzygies
Out of disk space

One use that I make of SuperDuper! is to maintain an exact clone of my laptop's internal drive. The clone is the same size, because it's an identical model disk. In the event of a disk failure, I...
Forum: General 08-11-2006, 12:43 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 11,061
Posted By Syzygies
I realize time passes after I back up, and I'm...

I realize time passes after I back up, and I'm not worried about my user files. As you say, I understand them.

I bet that 99% of your user base (myself included) would flunk a quiz on what system...
Forum: General 08-10-2006, 04:42 PM
Replies: 5
Views: 11,061
Posted By Syzygies
How can a startup volume faithfully back up itself?

How can a startup volume faithfully back up itself? Isn't this exactly like taking a picture of someone while they're moving? The picture blurs = the backup cannot possibly represent the state of the...
Forum: General 02-08-2006, 11:39 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 34,484
Posted By Syzygies
Yeah, but I can't remember that. I wrote the...

Yeah, but I can't remember that. I wrote the script for tracking my own web pages, but it tells me date information here. If accesses fall off to zero, I know no one is using search, and I can bump...
Forum: General 02-08-2006, 11:07 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 34,484
Posted By Syzygies
Sure, most forums are 99% lurkers, and the code...

Sure, most forums are 99% lurkers, and the code took a bit of work, just curious. I see how many people read my post, and they can study source to figure out who I am.

Here's a simple Perl script...
Forum: General 02-08-2006, 10:19 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 34,484
Posted By Syzygies
Hi. Has anyone tried this script? ...

Hi. Has anyone tried this script?

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~bayer/sig/DaveSD985.gif
Forum: General 02-08-2006, 09:20 AM
Replies: 24
Views: 35,250
Posted By Syzygies
I posted this a couple of weeks ago: A strategy...

I posted this a couple of weeks ago: A strategy for managing SD! jobs via AppleScript (http://www.shirt-pocket.com/forums/showthread.php?t=985)

There's a tension in any similar question to this:...
Forum: General 01-22-2006, 05:32 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 12,281
Posted By Syzygies
This hard linking feature is a command line...

This hard linking feature is a command line one-liner, "cp -al", if one can make a parallel directory on the same file system. As far as I can see, SD! will only copy to volumes as targets, not...
Forum: General 01-22-2006, 10:50 AM
Replies: 15
Views: 34,484
Posted By Syzygies
Revised code

Here is a revised version of my code to selectively mount and unmount volumes, and call SD! scripts unattended. I've sorted out various issues, and it now works fine as a cron job; I rely on it...
Forum: General 01-20-2006, 11:43 PM
Replies: 8
Views: 12,281
Posted By Syzygies
I had this same idea, got quite excited about it,...

I had this same idea, got quite excited about it, and within 5 minutes of googling realized (of course) it had been done. The idea has many virtues: Don't rely on a proprietary format, take advantage...
Forum: General 01-20-2006, 05:51 AM
Replies: 4
Views: 39,688
Posted By Syzygies
As of 2.0.1, this seems to have changed; I can't...

As of 2.0.1, this seems to have changed; I can't find these settings. To try to deduce what they might now be, I dumped the plist before and after a new SD! manual execution. The three benign changes...
Forum: General 01-18-2006, 09:49 AM
Replies: 2
Views: 14,061
Posted By Syzygies
Sure, back up to a disk image, stored on your...

Sure, back up to a disk image, stored on your external FW drive. SD! makes tis easy.

Many advantages. You can then copy this image to other drives either locally or over the net.
Forum: General 01-18-2006, 09:40 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 9,572
Posted By Syzygies
See Make large files span multiple optical disks...

See Make large files span multiple optical disks (http://www.aaronadams.net/index.php/2005/10/18/make_large_files_span_multiple_optical_d).

The relevant command example from this link is
...
Forum: General 01-18-2006, 06:19 AM
Replies: 7
Views: 11,365
Posted By Syzygies
I keep a 10.3.9 boot volume around for one...

I keep a 10.3.9 boot volume around for one purpose, using BitPim (not 10.4 compatible) to sync my cell phone. I just bought a 1.5 GHz Mac mini that was designed after the release of 10.4, and used...
Forum: General 01-17-2006, 07:29 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 15,257
Posted By Syzygies
But you're so close! I also own ChronoSync...

But you're so close!

I also own ChronoSync (http://www.econtechnologies.com/site/Pages/ChronoSync/chrono_overview.html) . Look at their archive function; it would be far easier for you to add a...
Forum: General 01-17-2006, 02:55 PM
Replies: 9
Views: 15,257
Posted By Syzygies
I'm pretty good about not deleting files that I...

I'm pretty good about not deleting files that I want, it's usually an older version of an existing file that I go hunting down. So Copy Different is backwards from what I want. I'd like to save...
Forum: General 01-16-2006, 04:31 PM
Replies: 15
Views: 34,484
Posted By Syzygies
A strategy for managing SD! jobs via AppleScript

My strategy for managing SD! jobs via AppleScript is this:

First, schedule each desired SD! job from within SD!, with any schedule that won't execute in the near future. This creates a settings...
Forum: General 01-15-2006, 09:48 AM
Replies: 11
Views: 23,935
Posted By Syzygies
Sample code?

Does anyone have some sample code for this they'd like to share?

I have only seen code that makes Unix calls, referencing partitions using "disk0s10" and such. These descriptors aren't stable from...
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