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Thu Oct 15, 2015 10:40 pm
The recent forum outage made me realize that I might not have current contact information for you. Can we put a tracker on your skateboard? I want to talk about forum backups.
Holy shit, this is slow.
Thu Oct 15, 2015 11:51 pm
So is everything still there?
Sat Oct 17, 2015 8:56 pm
Yeah, that was a bit of a shock.
Regarding the forum backup:
1) I am here regularly. I seldom log in, but i always look for new threads (no need for a tracker on the skateboard

)
2) I am not good at Linux anymore. Or computing in general.
3) I am pretty sure i did backups with a simple "rsync". I am also sure there is a thread at debianuserforums.org. I asked there, was given a solution and used that one.
What command i used (what options, arguments) ? The ones told said thread. It was nothing unusual.
Might have also been "wget" ... grml ...
Sun Oct 18, 2015 11:30 am
Got it, thanks! Currently experimenting with getting it to not re-download files that haven't changed.
In the event of a long-term disappearance, I could just upload the whole mess to another site, and it would be browseable and linked from the home page and download sites (ibiblio and sourceforge).
Sun Oct 18, 2015 1:54 pm
Nice to see you nadir. Thanks for helping. It sucked to have the forum non-functional for a few days. Even though not much goes on here, it would be a loss to lose old posts with invaluable info.
Sun Oct 18, 2015 7:37 pm
Yeah, i was a bit shocked too it was down.
I went to antix forum, also hosted on freeforums, and it was down too.
So i guessed, hoped, whatever it would be a tmp problem.
fsmithred:
iirc wget took a while, but it was ok, sure less than an hour. I couldn't find a way to only download "changed" content.
Sun Oct 18, 2015 8:31 pm
It's up to 70 minutes, and the bottleneck is not the down speed here. Must be on the other end. But that's ok. I made a cron job, so I don't have to worry about it.
I can't get it to skip the unchanged files. I must not have understood the man page correctly. I tried it three different ways, but it always takes the same amount of time.
Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:58 pm
weekly cronjob?
Sun Oct 18, 2015 10:59 pm
off-topic, you mentioned skating in the OP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM4FQ_FqEhQI am 45 now, so .... looks good ... couple of years to go.
hope you will enjoy it.
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