Tag | code snippets

Incremental Backups

Jun 12th, 2010No Comments

Keeping copies of one’s system just in case something breaks has been a long-time bane of sysadmin’s lives, albeit as hardware has moved on things have become easier. The days of tape backups are gone for most of us and the problem is reduced to one of keeping mirrored disk images of our systems.

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Syntax highlighting

Jun 10th, 2010No Comments

As we will (hopefully) over time be posting many code snippets, I’ve been looking at some syntax highlighting plugins to make any such code more readable. This is a brief demo of what I’ve come up with so far, first using a bash script I use to update backup routines on remote hosts and kickoff incremental backups;

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