kennywest

I don't think I have to tell you that creating backups is necessary. You never know how and when disaster will strike. To prevent loss of data I have been using the following strategy for a while: create a backup on a weekly basis to 2 disks on-site switch one of the on-site disks with an off-site disk (stored in a safe in a bank) Having an off-site disk is important. It helps you recovering from a real disaster like fire or theft. You could rent some online cloud storage to facilitate your off-site backups, but I think my solution (given the amount of data) is cheaper and faster. To create my weekly backup, I use the following script: #!/bin/sh # Author: Brice Burgess - bhb@iceburg.net # multi_backup.sh -- backup to a local drive using rsync. # Uses hard-link rotation to keep multiple backups. # Directories to backup. Seperate with a space. Exclude trailing slash! SOURCES= "/home/kenneth" # Directory to backup to. This is where your backup(s) will be st

2 years ago, I finally decided to ditch Ubuntu (kubuntu actually) and give openSUSE a try. Since that day, it has been running fine and stable without any problems. 12.1 was getting old, however, and I thought the other weekend was the perfect timing to re-install my main computer with the latest-and-greatest openSUSE 13.1. Like with 12.1, installation went like a breeze. As with 12.1, I downloaded the live DVD and installed from there. It was only after the first reboot, network was not available (it was available in the live DVD) and I had to enable networking manually in YaST, not sure why that happened. YaST, by the way, has been rewritten entirely in Ruby to allow better development for new modules. The previous version of YaST was written in YCP which was a very inflexible language from what I read. Anyway, as a normal user, you probably won't see any differences. Since I have an NVIDIA card, I downloaded and installed the latest drivers (331.20 at the time of writing) manu