Ever had one of those Twilight Zone experiences? You know where something works one minute, but doesn’t the next? It’s like the universe just getting suxed into a black hole? Okay well my experience wasn’t quite that dramatic, but this took over a year to figure out. Symptoms If I was locally connected to a […]
27
Jan
Updating .profile when changing Linux Distributions
Posted by Wayno Published in gnome, Linux Networking, Skill Level: Easy, Uncategorizedno comment
23
Jan
Scheduling a backup script with crontab for Ubuntu/Debian
Posted by Wayno Published in backup, crontab, Skill Level: Easy, Skill Level: MediumIn the previous post we saw a simple backup script, that backs up the entire /home/ directory. While this is great, we would have to remember to run this everyday for it to be of any use. Fortunately for us, we can do that very easily with crontab. crontab maintains a chronological (clock order) entry […]
16
Jan
Simple rsync backup/restore bash scripts for Ubuntu/Debian
Posted by Wayno Published in backup, bash, Joe, rsync, Skill Level: Easy, Skill Level: MediumTwo (2) Rules for Successful Computing: 1. Always have a path back to the way it was, before you messed it up! 2. Always follow Rule #1! This is something I’ve been meaning to post for a long time. How to do simple command line backup and restore operations, using a very simple bash script. […]
12
Jan
Hi folks — thought I’d take a moment to update you on a few things. I live here in Tucson, Arizona, which over the last weekend, was the lightning rod for violence. So much so, that President Obama will be here later today. For those not familiar I’ll re-post the article I wrote (from my […]
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