September 2008 |
I've been using an external harddrive to store backups of my laptop for a while now. At first I manually created a set of compressed tar archives about once a month. That was a bad system though because it used a lot of space and was a mission to retrieve files from backups. I then started using pdumpfs, which can do incremental backups by hard linking files which haven't changed. The problem I found with it however was that if a file's ownership or timestamps changed it wouldn't be hard linked even if the content hadn't changed. I therefore set out to find a better backup solution. My requirements were as follows.
I finally settled on storeBackup which supports everything except number 5.
It works similarly to
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A couple people on #clug were updating their Political Compass scores, which prompted me to jump on the bandwagon and do the test. I came out with the following scores. Economic Left/Right: -4.38 I then thought that it would be interesting to compare everyone's scores on a graph, so I wrote a [Python][] [script][py] to get the scores from Spinach and a [Gnuplot][] [script][p] to plot them. To add yourself to the graph, tell Spinach your score in the following format. The graph is regenerated every hour.
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