my 2 cents
so the transaction log of this stupid piece of software has completely filled up once again… that’s what worked for me last time: 1) DB -> Tasks -> BackUp Backup Type: Transactional Backup To: Disk -> OK 2) DB -> … Read More »
e.g. for testing purposes before touching valuable data… set the DB names ORIG_DB=“orig_db_name” NEW_DB=“new_db_name” create a dump (make sure to use a user having access rights to the db) TSTAMP=$(date +%F_%H-%M) FILE_ORIG=”${ORIG_DB}_${TSTAMP}.sql” pg_dump -f ${FILE_ORIG} —blobs —create ${ORIG_DB} adjust the … Read More »
might be interesting for the unfortunate minds that are stuck with one of those MacOS computers: HowTo: Make Ubuntu A Perfect Mac File Server And Time Machine Volume
have a look: http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7881 http://www.pro-linux.de/NB3/artikel/2/1183/uebersichtliche-auflistung-der-optionen-zur-wiederherstellung-von-daten.html http://mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/index.html http://www.sparkleshare.org/
as usually, we took tons of pictures during our last vacation, so eventually the memory card (a SD card) ran out of space. luckily, I had another SD within reach, so we just swapped them and went on… arriving at … Read More »
to restore a dump from a MySQL database created on a debianish Linux system, just feed the dumped SQL to the command-line mysql client like this: mysql -u root -p < mysql-all-2010-03-28-0515.sql since the whole content of all MySQL databases … Read More »
That’s just a few records on my personal experience regarding the hot-swapping/hot-plugging capabilities of SATA…
want to know which files in /etc have been changed on your debian-like Linux system? one part can be done with the package debsums, which compares the md5sums delivered with a debian-package with those of the current files: $ sudo … Read More »
wow, note this difference: /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc incr /home/backups/ . . Total number of objects inspected: 2.314 . . Elapsed processing time: 00:00:01 and the same command without the trailing slash: /opt/tivoli/tsm/client/ba/bin/dsmc incr /home/backups . . Total number of objects inspected: 32.378 … Read More »
ever wondered where TSM stores its passwords? Documentation and lots of websites are talking about the file TSM.PWD, but where is it? Voilà: /etc/adsm/TSM.PWD