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Revision 14667

Added by Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza about 10 years ago

fix: /README.TXT: to backup files not in Time Machine: need to use 2 TB external hard drive instead of Time Machine drive because Time Machine drive does not have ~/Documents/BIEN/ in a location where it can be hardlinked against

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				then review diff, and rerun with `l=1` prepended
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			start Dropbox: /Applications > double-click Dropbox.app
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	to backup files not in Time Machine:
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		**IMPORTANT**: need to use 2 TB external hard drive instead of Time
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			Machine drive because Time Machine drive does not have
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			~/Documents/BIEN/ in a location where it can be hardlinked against
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		On local machine:
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		on first run, create parent dirs:
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			sudo mkdir -p /Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups/root/Users/aaronmk/Documents/BIEN/
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			sudo mkdir -p /Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups/root/usr/local/var/postgres/
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			l=1 src=/ dest=/Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups/root/ sudo -E put --existing
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		l=1 overwrite=1 src=/ dest=/Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups/root/ sudo -E put --include='/vegbiendev**' --exclude='**' Users/aaronmk/Documents/BIEN/ # initial runtime: 4 h ("13912.63")
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			sudo mkdir -p '/Volumes/BIEN3.**SAVE**/Users/aaronmk/Documents/BIEN/'
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			sudo mkdir -p '/Volumes/BIEN3.**SAVE**/usr/local/var/postgres/'
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			l=1 src=/ dest='/Volumes/BIEN3.**SAVE**/' sudo -E put --existing
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		l=1 overwrite=1 src=/ dest='/Volumes/BIEN3.**SAVE**/' sudo -E put --include='/vegbiendev**' --exclude='**' Users/aaronmk/Documents/BIEN/
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			# this cannot be backed up by Time Machine because it dereferences hard links:
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			#  `sudo find /Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups/Backups.backupdb/ ! -type d -links +1`
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			#  returns no files when there is a single timestamped backup, but
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			#  `sudo find / ! -type d -links +1` does
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		l=1 overwrite=1 src=/ dest=/Volumes/Time\ Machine\ Backups/root/ sudo -E put usr/local/var/postgres/
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		l=1 overwrite=1 src=/ dest='/Volumes/BIEN3.**SAVE**/' sudo -E put usr/local/var/postgres/
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			# this cannot be backed up by Time Machine because it prevents the backup process from ending
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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/Time\ Machine\ Backups/root/ sudo -E put usr/local/var/postgres/
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		l=1 overwrite=1 src=/ dest='/Volumes/BIEN3.**SAVE**/' sudo -E put usr/local/var/postgres/
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		launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/homebrew.mxcl.postgresql.plist # start the PostgreSQL server
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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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