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The first backup with BackupPC has finished - faster than I expected. When I checked the backup set, I saw, that the /Windows and /Documents and Settings directories didn’t get backed up…. Hmm - looking at their properties, I found that there were not shareable because “the operating system needs them”… What? A bit of searching on the mailinglist of BackupPC found someone with a similar problem and with the solution: There’s a “simple sharing” option in Windows XP - a dumbed down version so to speak. Switching it off is described in the MS Knowledgebase. ...

A while ago, I was listed on the Swiss Weblogs Wiki and had a chance to update my profile. Stephanie who runs the list, mailed me and asked me to provide some keywords to go with my entry. I couldn’t think of any, so I let the matter rest. After a couple of weeks, she caught up with me on IRC at #joiito and insisted ;-) on me providing keywords. So I did - and I’m unhappy with the result. ...

While installing BackupPC I found the Debian Reference Manual which I didn’t know… Handy to have laying around

I had a go at installing BackupPC on a smallish personal server I built for a project that didn’t take off. The machine is a Via Eden board (with a high-performance C3 500 Mhz CPU :-) ) and a 120 Gig Harddrive. There’s a Debian Woody installed and I used this lazy afternoon to convert it to my home server. It already has 40 Gigs of my music and now it’s backing up 30 Gigs of data from this laptop. ...

I have been thinking about how to reliable backup my different computers and laptops. One solution that I favoured was to use rsync to synd all my stuff to a central server (and use rsync again to sync the backup sets between two servers on different locations). I thought about a neat frontend for, that would allow me to select the directories that would be backuped and a webfrontend for restore. ...

I have enjoyed the The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master and the Programming Ruby: A Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide books by Dave and Andy Now they have written two new pragmatic books with a third on the way: The Pragmatic Starter Kit with books on CVS and JUnit already available. I’ll be buying them after I finish this entry… (PDF or printed version? hmm - PDF is faster satisfaction) (oh, and here are the Amazon.de links for the “real” books): ...