[conspire] Happy fun HD failure

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Rick Moen (rick at linuxmafia.com):

> I'm a big, big fan of offsite backup, but that's slow and I'm in a
> hurry.  So, as of yesterday, I'm the owner of a nice shiny 2 TB hard
> drive in a 480 Mbit/sec-capable USB 2.0 enclosure.  Man, that's a lot of
> space.

You know, I could get a second one of those + a ShivaPlug, and cut
the PG&E hit to almost nothing.  Anyway, after safeguarding all data:

linuxmafia:/backup# df -h .
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd1             1.8T  9.7G  1.7T   1% /backup
linuxmafia:/backup#

Wow, chewing up space like mad, eh?  A whole 1%.  ;->


Updating that set takes a few hours, but only because there are a whole
lot of files to go through:

linuxmafia:/backup# rsync -ax /var/lib var-lib/ \
> rsync -ax /home/ home/ ; \
> rsync -ax /var/spool/ var-spool/ ; \
> rsync -ax /usr/local/ usr-local/
rsync: link_stat "/backup/rsync" failed: No such file or directory (2)
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
main.c(977) [sender=2.6.9]
file has vanished: "/var/spool/exim4/input/1OMASj-0007ie-9Y-D"
file has vanished: "/var/spool/exim4/input/1OMASm-0007ih-69-D"
rsync warning: some files vanished before they could be transferred
(code 24) at main.c(977) [sender=2.6.9]
linuxmafia:/backup# df -h .
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd1             1.8T   14G  1.7T   1% /backup
linuxmafia:/backup#