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Added by Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza over 10 years ago
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to back up the local machine's hard drive: |
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turn on and connect the 2 TB external hard drive |
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l=1 overwrite=1 src=/ dest=/Volumes/BIEN3/ sudo -E put --exclude=/.fseventsd/ --exclude=/private/var/vm/ --exclude=/usr/local/var/postgres/ --exclude=/Users/aaronmk/.dropbox/ |
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# --exclude='/\**': exclude *-files indicating the (differing) retention |
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# statuses of the partitions involved |
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l=1 overwrite=1 src=/ dest=/Volumes/BIEN3/ sudo -E put --exclude='/\**' --exclude=/.fseventsd/ --exclude=/private/var/vm/ --exclude=/usr/local/var/postgres/ --exclude=/Users/aaronmk/.dropbox/ |
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# no --extended-attributes: rsync has to visit every file for this |
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# runtime: 10 min (~600); initial runtime: 4-13 h ("2422.84"+"12379.91" .. "45813.19"+"747.96")
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# repeat until only minimal changes |
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l=1 overwrite=1 src=/ dest=/Volumes/BIEN3/ sudo -E put --exclude=/.fseventsd/ --exclude=/private/var/vm/ |
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l=1 overwrite=1 src=/ dest=/Volumes/BIEN3/ sudo -E put --exclude='/\**' --exclude=/.fseventsd/ --exclude=/private/var/vm/
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stop Dropbox: system tray > Dropbox icon > gear icon > Quit Dropbox |
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otherwise, the backup of ~/.dropbox will be corrupted |
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launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist # stop the PostgreSQL server |
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l=1 overwrite=1 src=/ dest=/Volumes/BIEN3/ sudo -E put --exclude=/.fseventsd/ --exclude=/private/var/vm/ |
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l=1 overwrite=1 src=/ dest=/Volumes/BIEN3/ sudo -E put --exclude='/\**' --exclude=/.fseventsd/ --exclude=/private/var/vm/
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launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist # start the PostgreSQL server |
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start Dropbox: /Applications > double-click Dropbox.app |
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to restore from Time Machine: |
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/README.TXT: to back up the local machine's hard drive: also exclude *-files indicating the (differing) retention statuses of the partitions involved