he year ends, the North pole tips its deepest bow to the
+alt="T" /> he year ends, the North Pole tips its deepest bow to the
darkness, and we see even large language models have been taking
it easy for the winterScary Devil
Monastery2 and if we want to set the new year
+role="doc-noteref">2, and if we want to set the new year
off to its best start, we should ensure we can pause, tear down, and
re-start its march, even at its lowest points.
When examining my backup and restore process, I took the opportunity
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ would have to be shut down and then restarted anew. Humans need their
respite over the holiday break: but should I have granted my server the
same indulgence? My plan accepted that boat would be
offline for, I hoped, a small slice of time.
There are more convoluted ways to ensure that none of my web sites, +
There are more convoluted ways to ensure that none of my websites,
file syncing, and miscellaneous tools flickered, even for a moment. I
could have temporarily switched my DNS settings to point at the fresh
clean tub, for instance, while overwriting
@@ -132,19 +132,18 @@ do not lightly emphasize relaxation.
Two hefty snowbanks stood between me and a perfectly clean restore. Since I first installed it, I have had REAR create ISO files for burning -onto a CD-ROM that I could restore from. “CD’ stand now for”Cretaceous -Disk”: I have not used one for over a decade. Pouring a bootable ISO -into a contemporary USB drive drive turns out to be surprisingly tricky, -and I can never remember how to do it. In the end, I was forced, -humiliatingly, to read REAR’s FAQ, -where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, REAR’s +FAQ, where they recommended a meatier graphical utility, UnetBootin, for achieving this. In the future, I’ve set REAR to output those bootable blobs as RAWDISK, which can be burned (warmed?) onto a USB drive.
REAR’s ecumenical acceptance of external backup programs can
-introduce a tremors into its solid scripts. My use of a distribution borg
backup package broke the restore. REAR scans
@@ -152,7 +151,7 @@ executables that it plans to include on its rescue bootable blob to
detect what libraries they require, so that it may copy those over.
Sadly, the borg executable can be either a binary executable – for which
this suffices – or a Python script, whose demands REAR cannot fathom.
-This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime I
+This is undoubtedly a bug a future REAR will fix. In the meantime, I
copied over the binary
borg into /usr/local/bin instead of the Pythonic borg
@@ -168,15 +167,15 @@ like a lucky North
Sea seafarer, bobbed back up from an early visit to “Fiddler’s
Green”.
Testing your recovery plans during your own end-of-year downtime -gives you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and -prepare for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same? -What will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to -the habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and +
Testing your recovery plans during your end-of-year downtime gives +you a moment to look back at the record of what has been, and prepare +for the ups and downs of the coming year. What will be the same? What +will change? What parts of your life can you simply hard link to the +habits of the past? And what will you have to incrementally add and integrate into your ever-evolving life?