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  • Mounting a whole disk with partitions

    Mounting a whole disk with partitions

    I reinstalled one of my RPis (moving from 32 to 64 bit). Before doing the full reinstall, I took a dump (dd) of my disk. Usually, I create one per partition, but this was the Christmas season, and I was half occupied with feasting and half occupied with entertaining Ila. So, mistakes were made. I…

  • Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder.

    5 or so days ago, this error suddenly popped up: Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup folder. I have a Raspberry Pi, acting as TimeMachine (using afp/Bonjour/Netatalk). There are several things I tried to solve this, including messing in the sparebundle from Linux (chowning) and deleting my TM .plist. This…

  • Home made TimeMachine

    This. Used my Raspberry Pi, with an USB disk as TimeMachine. Another disk as NAS/storage. It’s just quite slow… Not sure whether it’s my WiFi or RPi that can’t keep up. But for now, it’s working.

  • Rsync backups

    My own simple rsync backup ‘script’. You’ll need a rsync server, something to backup, and ssh-agent running to ease the process (or, fill in your password each time). Add the following lines (using a terminal text editor) to a text file (“.rsync” for example, hidden files under Unix-like systems), and chmod +x $file. rsync –archive…