Thread of PC Woes, Troubles, Problems, and Issues

BeoTeK said:
Appreciated
/tips hat
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You're quite welcome :)

HavocXphere said:
Murfle - no they still make 32" with 1080. Got a smart version Sony one here. Came with the furniture... Yeah it's weird I know
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I could have been misinformed. There aren't many manufacturers that make the actual panels, could be only 1 of them still makes the 1080p ones... There isn't really a great selection available locally. I tried helping my friend find one a few months ago. Think I only found one or two and he didn't want either...
 
@SOMEONE

I hope someone might be able to assist me.
I need to create a backup file (compressed) on a computer with a shared folder, that will fetch the required data from other network shares X, Y and Z and store it on this BACKUP machine.

The complication comes in that the process should create a single compressed file from all three sources and continually update said file as opposed to creating a new file for every backup instance. The hope is that when the cloud backup gathers this compressed file it will just upload the changes instead of new backup files; in effect uploading minimal MB sized files as apposed to GB's of data every day.
 
What's your backup machine running? Windows?

If its *nix, its easy, just do a tar + gzip. If windows, I'm sure there's a gui version of it, or you can get cygwin, which is like a bash shell with *nix tools.

From memory, the command would be something like
tar -cvfz c:\path\to\newbackupfile.tar.gz i:\ j:\ k:\ (or *nix equivalent paths). It could get more complicated if you have to log into the network to access those shares.
 
Using gzip for win is about the same, as long as the account used to execute gzip has access to the remote path it will run. Murfle your options do look right at a glance
 
[MENTION=9148]murfle[/MENTION]
Yeah, running Win7 (we hardly use unix distros) and to be honest my my knowledge is limited, dealt mostly with Ubuntu.

I'll be running it from a domain based user account so it'll have it's required authentication passed via the AD/Security shares, so that should be fine. A simple \\computername\share will work without prompting for credentials.
All I need is for it to fetch files, and compress it to x location on the local PC. And then the following day do the same, but overwrite the said file.
 
Well I love PowerShell, so I would use that to automate this process. Download the relevant module, build a script and use task scheduler.
 
[MENTION=4071]BeoTeK[/MENTION] that is exactly what gzip will do "gzip -rf \\server\share \\server2\share >> backup.gz" should do the trick
 
Process finished and created a backup.gz of 0kb.

While it was running however, the network activity was going mal, so it was doing something.



This is what I has:
gzip -rf \\gridsvr1\mededi\bak \\gridsvr2\mededi\bak >> backup.gz
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If I try run it again, it just returns to prompt and doesn't do anything (I assume because backup.gz exists)
 
Now nothing happens when I try run that, even tried with a different user within different security groups.
 
wouldn't it be better to have the files copied 1st to a location before compressing? Instead of compressing on the fly?
 
oh.... yes, thanks [MENTION=1305]Lothy[/MENTION]

I see what happened with that command, it's just changed the extension of everything (compressed) in the destination to *.gz without copying to the local machine.
 
BeoTeK said:
oh.... yes, thanks [MENTION=1305]Lothy[/MENTION]

I see what happened with that command, it's just changed the extension of everything (compressed) in the destination to *.gz without copying to the local machine.
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Sure man anytime.

Now what u should look at doin is setting a task schedule to do this for u. Probably 2, 1 for copying the info and the other to complete the compressing.
 
sEEMS FUNTIONAL, tTHANKS [MENTION=6600]PsychoFish[/MENTION] [MENTION=9148]murfle[/MENTION] [MENTION=1305]Lothy[/MENTION]
 
Didn't want to start a new thread, but I need some help with an SSD, looking at these ones (I have to go through Takealot as a have vouchers):

http://www.takealot.com/crucial-mx100-256gb-2-5-inch-ssd/PLID32844312
http://www.takealot.com/corsair-for...5-inch-sata-6gb-s-solid-state-dr/PLID34158220
http://www.takealot.com/transcend-ssd370-2-5-inch-sata-3-solid-state-drive-256gb/PLID32837003
http://www.takealot.com/ocz-arc-100-2-5-ssd-240gb/PLID33054507

Any suggestions ? I would like a 256gb, I have heard the only thing you regret on an SSD is that you didnt get a bigger one.
 
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