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8.25.2008

Restoring from BackUp My PC CD-Rs

This is a follow up to my previous post about getting Linux restored on my computer.

Five years ago I started using a backup program from Veritas, BackUp My PC. It only runs on Windows and I am now just running Linux.

So I had to use another Windows machine to restore those backups.

Six sets of backup CDs were created:

  1. Created in May 2003 - the BACKUP file is not recognized by the program. It was a Verbatim CD-R with a paper label affixed.
  2. Is not recognized by BackUp My PC. ?? CD-R with a paper label affixed.
  3. Recognized. No paper label.
  4. Recognized. No paper label.
  5. Index file corrupt. The program then says it can manually create a new index from the files, however there is no indication of how it is progressing. No paper label.
  6. Two disc backup set. No paper label. All files restored.
The general wisdom is to never affix any kind of paper label to a CD-R/RW or DVD-R/RW. It is much safer to use a CD-R pen to write the title on the disc itself, and then to use a pen to write on the supplied paper supplied with the CD/DVD or to create a new one using a kit and a proper template for your word processor.

Also the earliest backups have the same files plus newer files between backup #1 and #6. So it's always a good idea to backup all the files incrementally with any newer ones you create.

BackUp My PC stores backup sets in .qic (QIC cartridge) format, which dates back to the 1980s. According to one website it says that Windows backup also uses QIC 113 format to store its backups.

8.23.2008

Rewrite of Catholic Preface Dialogue Needed

The Preface Dialogue is the part just before the Eucharistic Prayer. It goes like this:

Priest:
The Lord be with you. All: And also with you.
Priest:
Lift up your hearts. All: We lift them up to the Lord.
Priest:
Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God. All: It is right to give him thanks and praise.

Now since at least the 1980s I've been saying:


Priest:
The Lord be with you. All: And also with you.
Priest:
Lift up your hearts. All: We lift them up to the Lord.
Priest:
Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God. All: It is ALWAYS right to give him thanks and praise.

It goes right with what the Priest says next:


8.19.2008

New Hard Drive

I had to replace my 4 year old 40 GB hard drive last week because it was making clicking sounds and the BIOS was no longer recognizing it.

So the new one is twice the size, and this gave me an opportunity to repartition using LVM and doing it the proper way with the 4 partitions -- /boot, / (root), /home, and /swap.

My /boot partition is 100 megs, while root and /home are 10 gigs, and /swap is 2.048 gigabytes.

After installing all the software I use, the root partition just has 6.5 gigabytes left over, but with LVM I can easily expand that without having to reformat, as there is 46 gigabytes of freespace.

8.09.2008

Great, funny YouTuber:

His view count numbers in the 100s of thousands, days after his video rants are posted:

Philip Defranco (sxephil)

An example of how good his video rants are. Here's one on "Realization":




I think Phil should have his own tv or radio show. He's made for it.