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Installing CrashPlan on Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition

Posted on May 19, 2009 by matthew

Although rsnapshot is super for linux-to-linux backups, I’ve found CrashPlan to work very well as a backup solution for my family’s windows and mac boxes. The CrashPlan installation works pretty well on ubuntu desktop edition, as all the necessary packages … Continue reading →

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Preventing an external hard drive from idling on ubuntu

Posted on June 9, 2008 by matthew

I got a Seagate FreeAgent Pro external hard drive for backups (JWZ has a very straightforward article about this). It happily reformatted to ext3, and I kicked off an rsync of /home. Because rsync figures out what files need copying … Continue reading →

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