Tech: Rsync rulez!
Right, so Janaqi felt some tremors. His eyeballs dialate–no, hang on, eyeballs don’t dilate–er, I mean, his PUPILS dilate, yes, yes indeed, as he felt a slight shift in the ground. Earthquake! “Nooooooooo,” he yells softly, yes softly indeed… “nononoNONONONononONOnONonoonoNonONOnoOOOOO,” a BIT louder now… “This can’t be happening!” Janaqi realizes that he hasn’t backed up his work in about a week! A week! Oh crummazooki!” He’s absolutely sure that there can be only one answer. His quivering left hand–yes, he’s a left-hander–gripped the HP mouse–”RIIING!”
Whoa. Janaqi is in sweat. It’s 5.30am. He had backed up his files–shoot, go back to sleep man, no… get a drink, a nice glass of water, and DON’T stumble over Bogerozon. Bogie whined for attention as he followed his master who was fumbling in the dark with his glowing boxers towards the kitchen sink.
Janaqi closed his eyes as he just SAT there. So good to have downloaded Cygwin. So good to have set the Windows environment variable to the /bin directory. Put a lil script that calls rsync in the /bin directory to synchronise the project folders with the off-site backup file server, and a Task Scheduler-hooked NT command prompt shell that calls this bash script every night. Thank God for Andrew Tridgell & the Samba team, AND for Chris Faylor and the Cygwin devs - oh yeah, thank God, oh yeah. Praise You, Lord!
Man, the glass of water tastes good at 5.40am. So good.
Just sits there.
Waiting for PC Fair.
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WL Said,
June 21, 2006 @ 12:30 am
Interesting!
ah pek Said,
June 21, 2006 @ 12:33 pm
*scrtching me botak head* ????????? computer crash liao ah?
TUX Said,
June 21, 2006 @ 3:05 pm
GNU rules. Microsoft is giving away Services for Unix (SFU) free. Now you can share out NFS mounts from Windows shares to UNIX, so you can use your cron job to run your bash scripts. Not sure it works for you.
Cocka Doodle Said,
June 22, 2006 @ 2:23 am
mmm chee ley ngap mutt
Simonsays Said,
June 22, 2006 @ 10:02 am
Yah sorry guyz… this is a techie post… I thought that u non-techies will ignore it but I guess the story-telling part reeled you in :) Next time when you see the poster is not gbyeow, beware… it could be a really geeky techie post! (cheesy sound of woman screaming…)
Simonsays Said,
June 22, 2006 @ 10:18 am
TUX: I heard about SFU (a.k.a Interix), thanks for the pointer. I don’t quite fancy it as I am a cheapskate; on Cygwin an Xserver is free, and with Interix it’s about almost RM700 per seat. I know that there are lots of ways to run Linux on Windows (F.O.C.), including QEMU as a screensaver, VMWare Server with pre-built images of popular distros & CoLinux… Just need a wee bit more time on the testing side lor. :) So far Cygwin is great and I’m happy with it :)
TUX Said,
June 22, 2006 @ 2:06 pm
SFU 3.5 is given away for free from Microsoft’s download site.
Anyway, we use both Cygwin and SFU 3.5 (not sure about SFU 3.0/Interix).
Simonsays Said,
June 22, 2006 @ 6:44 pm
TUX: Great to meet another Cygwin user.