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Revision 14919

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

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		screen
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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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