Slackware :: Make Backups Of DVD Collection?
Jan 1, 2010What software is recommended to make backups of my DVD collection?
I used to use DVD43 in Windows, but now in Slackware I am not sure what is recommended for such a process.
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Slackware :: Amarok Hangs At 10% When Scanning Large Music Collection?
Jun 6, 2010After installing slackware 13.1 I start up amarok and when I go in and configure the settings and it starts to scan the folder and it either hangs at 10%, stops responding all together or crashes, the library is about 130 gigs of mp3s. I do not know where to start on this one. Amarok version 2.3.0
View 4 Replies View RelatedGeneral :: Use Bacula To Make Backups Of The Files Stored On The Server?
Apr 14, 2010I have an ubuntu (8.04.3) server where I use bacula to make backups of the files stored on the server. Ive been trying to find a solution (with no luck) trying to succesfully implement the following:-
A Backup tape for each day of the week besides Thurs which is resused on a weekly basis. For the thursday tapes we have a backup tape corresponding to the week number that the thursday falls so for the first thursday of the month it would be ThursOne For example. These tapes are resued on a monthly basis. We then have a monthly tape that is used on the last thursday of the month. These tapes will be resused on a yearly basis.
Another requirement is just in case a tape is accidently not changed a backup should still occur regardless of what tape is in the drive (so if its tuesday and mondays tape is still in the tape drive it should rewrite that tape).
I did have this successfully set up where the tape was appended after each use rather than being recycled after the nightly backup. But then after a few weeks I would have to manually purge tapes when they became full (which isnt ideal - as Im not always in the office so in my absence it may be that a backup may not take place), so have been playing around and have now got the tapes to be marked as used after a max of 2 jobs (so the backup of the files and the catalog of the night). I also added this line 'Recycle Current Volume = yes' so that it would hopefully recycle the volume in the drive.
However what I am finding is that the tape that should be recycled is not, but in yesterday case the Mondays tape was recycled rather than the Tuesday although Mondays was the last written so Im not even sure why it choose to recycle this tape.
General :: Make Incremental Backups On A Separate Partition Of The Same Hard Drive?
Jan 22, 2010one would have to exclude certain folders / directories but would the backup be possible if the system is up and running in its native "live" state ? Which directories could be excluded ? Does swap need to be turned off ? I would like to make incremental backups on a separate partition of the same hard drive. I will endeavour to backup the MBR/ Partition table using dd.
View 6 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: No Eth/sound/agpgart After Recovery From Backups?
Mar 15, 2010I wanted to clone a system (running slackware 12.1) so I created a tar file with all the directories from the original system, skipping over dev, mnt, proc, tmp and home. On the target system, after dumping the directories and running lilo (after using chroot to the mounted partition), the system booted and worked almost fine. The only problem is that the network card, sound card are not detected, and /dev/agpgart is not recognized by X. Everything else (usb controllers, PCMCIA, etc) works.
I had to create /proc on the target filesystem, and copy (with -R) /dev from the live cd (2005 gentoo based System Rescue CD) to the target filesystem. Are some files missing or maybe permissions are not set correctly? This is the second time I'm doing this and I'm missing something, but the first time it worked flawlessly (though it was one year ago, so I can't remember the details ) If anyone tried to clone a system the same way, please share any ideas (or any other way to clone one system to another (the systems differ from every point, so dumping the whole partition will not work), since a full reinstall takes too much time)
CentOS 5 :: Scheduled Unattended Backups With Alerts If The Backups Fail
Feb 3, 2011I've been a DOS/Windows guy for 20 years, and recently became a SW test lab helper. My company uses CentOS for a lot, so I've become familiar with it, but obviously not as comfortable as I am with Windows.
Here's what I have planned:
machine: Core 2 Duo E8400, 8GB DDR2, 60GB SSD OS drive, ATI 4650 video card, other storage is flexible (I have 3 1TB drives and 4 750GB drives around that can be used in this machine.)
uses: HTPC, Network Storage, VMWare server host: SMTP, FTP server, and Web server virtual machines
I've figured out how to do much of this, but I haven't figured out how to do backups in Linux. I've been spoiled with Windows, with the built in backup system so simple to use. I find myself overwhelmed with the array of backup software, and unable to determine which to use. none of them seem to do everything I need them to do, but some come close, I think. I'm hoping someone here can help me out in figuring out which program to use and how to use it.
Here is what I need the backup software to do:
1. scheduled unattended backups, with alerts if the backups fail
2. a weekly full backup with incremental every 12 hours
3. removing the old backups when the new full backup runs, I would prefer to keep 2 weeks of backups, but that's not necessary
4. a GUI would be preferable, since my arthritic fingers don't always do as I want them to do. I typo things a lot, and the label worn off my backspace can attest to that.
General :: Rsync Incremental Backups Rather Than Full Backups?
Nov 12, 2009How do you get Rsync to do incremental backups rather than full backups? At the moment I have a script that will create a backup folder (if it doesnt already exist) then copy the source files into the backup directory with the command
rsync $VERBOSE --exclude=$TARGET/ $EXCLUDE --exclude '/Ls-wtgl1c8/**' -rt --delete $source/ $TARGET/$source/ >> $LOG_FILE
Target is where the files will be backed up to Sources is the dir(s) to be backed up Exclude files is the list of files not to backup
log file is where the output will be saved to. At the moment it only does full backups, but I would only like to do incremental, how would this be achieved? Am I missing out an option in the Rsync that is required.
Slackware :: Make: *** No Rule To Make Target `pkg'
Feb 25, 2011I have down loaded: slapt-get-0.10.2h-i386-1.tgz I have read the install directions:
Quote:
- Using pkgtools: ----------------
To install:
$ make pkg
$ installpkg ./pkg/slapt-get-${VERSION}-${ARCH}-${RELEASE}.tgz
When I try make pkg, I get:
Code:
root@darkstar:/home/rob# make pkg
make: *** No rule to make target `pkg'. Stop.
I guess that I do not understand the instructions?
Slackware :: Make Bootloader Include Slackware In Its' Menu?
Jan 6, 2011To an empty disk I installed:
1) Windows XP & then shrank it's partition to make room for OpenSuse) 2) OpenSuse with grub installed on the MBR (& then shrank the home partition & created a new root and home partition for Slackware 13.1). These two OSes dual-booted properly 3) Slackware 13.1 with LiLo installed to the superblock of the Slackware root partition (sda8). How do I get Slackware to be a 'working' selection on the boot menu?
Slackware :: Can I Make KDE / Gnome Look Like Windows 7 In Slackware
Feb 26, 2010You might be asking why would I want to this? I will tell you why. My wife. She has grown up using Windows. The jump from Windows XP to 7 wasn't as bad as I thought it would be for her. I just had to show her where things changed to for about 10-20 minutes and that was that.
I did a trial run with Ubuntu for about a month using Gnome and not her cup of tea. So now I did a search on the Internet and came up with a Gnome solution here is the link:
http://aminesoft.wordpress.com/2009/...ike-windows-7/
And a KDE link:
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show...content=104232
But both websites are oriented towards Ubuntu/Kubuntu. I am just wondering if this will work with Slackware???
My wife likes a speedy system almost as much as I do. She also like the Search field when you click on the Start menu in Windows 7, the taskbar at the bottom, the big red X in right hand corner of the windows.
I just hope I can go this route and change it to look like Windows 7. I will be very happy and so will my wife of course.
Slackware :: Can't Make Local Mirror Of Slackware
Sep 10, 2010I have done several attempts to build a local mirror of Salckware 13.0. There are two problems: I have to wait very long for a connection, they appear error during a connection which broke it so I have to restart. Is there any other way to build mirror? I am using Alien Bob scripts. Never before happened something like that. The connections with common web pages (google, etc) work well. Maybe I should look for some other mirror than those listed in mirror-slackware-current.sh.
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Slackware :: Make Donation To Slackware?
May 27, 2010I will be finishing my upgrade cycle to 13.1 and I am a very happy man! Slackware 13.1 is First Rate. I think it is very important that we support Patrick Volkerding so that he can continue to deliver our favourite OS to us. Slackware is PV's source of income. I just made a donation to Slackware using paypal (see the donate link in my signature), it works flawlessly. donate whatever you can: Make a donation using paypal, buy the CDs/DVD, buy a Slackware subscription, or pick up some merchandise at the Slackware store.
View 14 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: Take Current Windows7 (x64) Setup And Make It Into A Dual-boot Setup With Slackware 13.0?
Jan 24, 2010I'm trying to take my current windows7 (x64) setup and make it into a dual-boot setup with slackware 13.0 (x32) and am hitting a brickwall. I guess I would like to know if I can salvage the situation without formating my windows drive. I fully intend to, but I had hoped to not do it this month. I'd like to get dual boot going so I can master it and acquire all the files/drivers I'll want and then format and do it 100% right next time.
Currently I have windows setup on a 3x 500gb Raid0 onboard array which itself has been flawless. After I shrunk my current partition size to give me about 25gb of free space I proceeded to setup Linux, and I was unable to perform the cfdisk portion for partitioning the array for Linux.
I tried using cfdisk:
/dev/hdx (a1-a3,b1-b3)
/dev/sdx (a1-a3,b1-b3)
I even attempted to locate with: cat proc/partition and tried using cfdisk on every device it located. It always said it was either an unknown partition table and should I start at zero, or bad partition. I was of course too concerned over my windows setup (which has almost 1tb of stuff I have not backed up) to go any further into the unknown.
PS: I have used Slackware before, back at 8.1, 10, and even a very brief interlude at 12.0, this is my first attempt on this computer however with 13.0, it is currently running fine on my laptop and my PS3 (Laptop is even dual booting 7/Slack13. Albeit without raid)
Phenom 9850
M2N-SLI Deluxe (Nvidia AM2)
4x1gb of 1066 kingston hyperX
3x500gb WD Caviar Black Sata2 3.0
SUSE :: Get To Add To The Collection Or Playlist?
May 9, 2010Can anyone explain in simple schoolboy language (age about 5, or thats how i feel), how I can rip my cds, so not breaking law, and add to playlist.No problem playing them, but how do you get to add to the collection or playlist.
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Jan 7, 2010I was wondering if it is possible to have a garbage collector in C, and would it be too difficult to create?
View 1 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: Can't Make Playonlinux Run?
Jul 9, 2011I am trying to install Playonlinux on slack 13.37 and I installed it through slackbuild. But when I try to run it, it hangs at this message:
Code:
bash-4.1# playonlinux
PlayOnLinux v3.8.12
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/share/playonlinux/python/question.py", line 21, in <module>
import wxversion, os, getopt, sys, urllib, signal
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Slackware :: How To Make TAR As TGZ File
Jan 21, 2011I found program but they are tar.bz2 and tar.gz and they are not work on slackware. How can I make them tgz file. Last night I am download src2pkg but I don't know how to use it.
View 12 Replies View RelatedFedora :: Amarok Can't Scan My Collection
Feb 21, 2010Ok, I stopped using Fedora after the version 9. Today for a change I installed Fedora 12. And now I am in an endless world of troubles.At first I was able to video call friends on msn. But it wasn't working. And then I found this guide and did everything it says. Now it's even worse, audio and video call buttons are greyed out?
Amarok is a critical software for me. No Amarok, no Linux. I installed the amarok's latest version through yum. But amarok can't scan my collection. It keeps giving this error "[ERROR!] Tried to query an uninitialized m_db! ".???
Ubuntu :: Database For Music CD Collection?
Feb 20, 2010I'm looking for a recommendation for an app that will keep details of all my audio CDs. Ideally I'd like it to be able to produce html or xml so that I can check it from anywhere ("Have I got that track?").
View 4 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Program That Allow To Catalog Your CD / DVD Collection?
Jun 23, 2010I wondering if there is a program that allow to catalog your CD/DVD collection? I using KUbuntu 10.04 LTS and would like to find a program where I can catalog my CD/DVD collection. I have tried to find one. But I haven't found one.
View 2 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Webilder Keep Growing Collection?
Feb 22, 2011Does webilder just keep growing the collection? Or does it ever get rid of old photos? It seems to me an ideal webilder I could set max 100k, it would delete oldest photos to make room for new. Or, like flickrwall (windows), it would just pull one flickr photo per hour, over writing last photo.
View 1 Replies View RelatedUbuntu :: Amarok: How To Clean Up Collection
Aug 9, 2011I have removed an album from my hard drive and yet Amarok shows that album in my collection. Neither right-click > delete, nor rescanning library helps. What to do to remove this obsolete data from the collection?
View 2 Replies View RelatedSoftware :: Thoughts On Reorganizing MP3 Collection?
Mar 14, 2010Last spring I graduated college. I lived in a party house, and being skilled in computers, I decided to build a media center for me and my five roomies. The thing worked great; MythTV for television, and a thin client in the kitchen to DJ the music. I had a samba share available so my room mates could just dump their music collection from their machines on to the media center. Adding new songs was their problem, and not mine. As you can imagine, nobody really wanted to organize the music to well. Many of them just dumped in the tunes and then searched for it in GMPC (a great interface for MPD by the way).
So over a year later, I have 150GB+ of music which is mostly unorganized. I need a way to put some order to the chaos... I tried using EasyTag for a while. Don't get me wrong, it's a great program. But sorting through every directory and song would take me DAYS, time I just don't have.I need a way to SAFELY rename and organize all of the music into a logical file structure. My initial thought was to just connect an external hard drive, copy it all into iTunes on some laptop, and then recopy the then organized iTunes database back onto the media center.
General :: Amarok Not Building Collection
Jul 19, 2010I was using amarok fine with 10.04, upgraded to 10.10 alpha, still worked fine. Decided alpha had a few bugs I didn't like so I completely removed it, installed 10.04 from scratch again (I have two partitions, / and /home, only formatted /). Now I can't get amarok to build for me at all. It plays mp3's no problem but when I try to build my collection it pretends to (takes a few minutes but goes relatively fast compared to what it should take to build) then shows 0 songs. I've already tried deleting amarok inside of /home/user/.kde/share/apps/amarok
View 1 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: Cannot Start Xorgconfig / Make It Possible?
Mar 27, 2010I've just install Slack 13 and had been looking into the website for configure info. What is my problem is the #xorgconfig does not start on my system. It says command not found. I had searched for answer on the web and found no answer so I post here for help. Is there anything else I need to install to get my intel graphic card display more then 1024 resolution?
View 7 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: Can't Make 'useradd' Work
May 10, 2010Code:
useradd -u 8001 -g luc -p mypassword -s /usr/bin/bash -d /home/luc luc
Open another terminal:
Code:
luc[159-0]test> ssh luc@61.62.63.64
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Jump back to the other terminal... Try SSH login... Success!
'adduser' works, 'useradd' doesn't. Why? I have read the man pages several times and can't find the error in my command line.
I have a similar problem with groupadd
This fails: groupadd -g 8001 staff
This works: groupadd staff
Slackware :: Set CFLAGS And Other Make Options?
Jan 2, 2010I've been googling and reading up on how to set build optimizations for my system, and after consulting the Arch Wiki, old threads here, and some mailing lists, I've concluded that the way to set CFLAGS, etc. is by putting this in /etc/profile:
Code:
export CHOST="x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
export CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
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Slackware :: Make Headers_Install Error - 64 ?
Dec 13, 2010I was trying to make a 64bit 2.6.36.2 kernel for my multilib slackware64 setup and when doing "make headers_install" I get this error
Code:
Is this because it's multilib/compat32pkg? do I need to go back to GCC for 64?
Slackware :: Make Start X Whenever It Starts?
Aug 9, 2010How can I make slackware startx whenever it starts instead of having to go login as root and type startx each time?
View 6 Replies View RelatedSlackware :: Use Sox To Make A File Mono?
Dec 2, 2010Kernel 2.6, GNU (Slackware 12.0). sox 12.18.1
Code:
bash-3.1# file receive48.wav
receive48.wav: RIFF (little-endian) data, WAVE audio, Microsoft PCM, 16 bit, stereo 48000 Hz bash-3.1# This file, I intend to make it mono. That is, to mix both channels. I know this is a piece of cake for sox. But exactly how do I do it?