recovering data from a disk
Yet another method for extracting data from a failing harddrive. I originally came across the link which pointed me in the right direction. I had to that point simply relied on ext3/4 doing the heavy lifting but the methadology used by ddrescue really appealed to me. I’m currently running the commands from the manual which appear to be working reasonably well. The manual is available here: . Rescue the most important part of the disc first. ddrescue -i0 -s50MiB /dev/hdc hdimage logfile ddrescue -i0 -s1MiB -d -r3 /dev/hdc...
read moredd-wrt timemachine on E3000
It’s been a while since I tried to do anything additionally funky with my dd-wrt router but I thought that it was about time. The router is a Linksys E3000 device with the following firmware: DD-WRT v24-sp2 (08/12/10) mega – build 14929, what I wanted to do was to create a squid proxy server and a time machine. I had been using the device to run optware with asterisk on a single USB drive but I wanted to have some additional storage on mulitple USB devices. The first thing that I found was that additional devices were all...
read moreVPS backing up
I’m currently migrating from Linode to DotBlock (have been with Linode for over a year and I’m happy with them but the deal that DotBlock provided was unbeatable, here’s to hoping that it wasn’t a bad mistake). Anyway, one of the main things that I needed to do was to migrate the data from one system to the other. My favourite Tarball method kept failing so I decided to simply backup the mysql database hosted on the site and use rsync to do the heavy lifting. rsync -arvpzH --numeric-ids --exclude=/dev --exclude=/proc...
read moreJCAPS project import
I’m playing a lot with Java CAPS (JCAPS) 6.2 at the moment and this is the beginning of my postings with this system. Import and export of projects (at least on the windows version of JCAPS) can be done as follows: Importing projects The following stanza will invoke strong magic to import the project using the defined username from the major_components.zip under the subProject ImportedProjects, replacing all of the code already in the project (where conflicts occur) C:\JavaCAPS62\repository\repository\util>importProject.bat username...
read moreAutomatic shutdown script for Windows XP
This is a quick post to document a shutdown script that I have written to automatically shutdown a PC after a specified amount of time. This prompts the user to let them know and gives them the opportunity to cancel the shutdown. It utilises the AT scheduler (interactive mode) to schedule the task and can be deployed and updated via a group policy. As with all of my scripts, this works for what I needed it but you should be sure to completely understand what other people scripts do before running them yourself. ' This script is designed...
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