Reinstate your backups!
(when you move them) Context A while back I moved my home server from Xen (for host ‘OS’) with mdadm + LVM (for raid6 storage);… Read More »Reinstate your backups!
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Proxmox snapshots: “The current guest configuration does not support taking new snapshots”
Let me snapshot tl;dr: This can happen if you use a storage mechanism that doesn’t support snapshots (see here for more information). However, it seems… Read More »Proxmox snapshots: “The current guest configuration does not support taking new snapshots”
Better Backups: Decide What You’re Going To Back Up
tl;dr: Picking what you are going to back up helps (i) keep the backup space usage minimal (ii) helps to inform choice of backup program… Read More »Better Backups: Decide What You’re Going To Back Up
QA: Is there a way to make a backup of the difference with DD or PV?
Note: This is a backup of a QA over at Super User which was auto-deleted, so is preserved here for posterity. Users with >10k rep… Read More »QA: Is there a way to make a backup of the difference with DD or PV?
Better Backups: Pick a System
You have backups, right? — SuperUser’s chat room motto This started out as an intro to bup. Somewhere along the way it underwent a philosophical… Read More »Better Backups: Pick a System
Speeding up fdupes
tl;dr: use jdupes I was merging some fileserver content, and realised I would inevitably end up with duplicates. “Aha”, I thought “time to use good… Read More »Speeding up fdupes
Browsing MySQL Backups
tl;dr: Seems the quickest way of doing this was to fire up a VM, install mysql-server and mysql-client and browse that way. I have backups… Read More »Browsing MySQL Backups