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Added by Aaron Marcuse-Kubitza about 10 years ago
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# --exclude='/\**': exclude *-files indicating the (differing) retention |
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# statuses of the partitions involved |
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pause Dropbox: system tray > Dropbox icon > gear icon > Pause Syncing
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otherwise, the backup of ~/.dropbox will be corrupted
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# don't need to pause Dropbox, since it will be reinitialized for the
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# new partition UUID anyway
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brew services stop postgresql # if doesn't work, run `rm /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid` and retry |
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l=1 overwrite=1 src=/ dest='/Volumes/BIEN3.**SAVE**/' sudo -E put --exclude='/\**' --exclude=/.fseventsd/ --exclude=/private/var/vm/ |
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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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brew services start postgresql # if doesn't work, run `rm /usr/local/var/postgres/postmaster.pid` and retry |
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resume Dropbox: system tray > Dropbox icon > gear icon > Resume Syncing |
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to restore from Time Machine: |
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# restart holding Alt |
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# select Time Machine Backups |
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fix: /README.TXT: to back up the local machine's hard drive: don't need to pause Dropbox, since it will be reinitialized for the new partition UUID anyway