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D40X shortcomings

  • Posted by Rob
  • 5 April, 2008

I’ve recently been looking at getting a new lens for my Nikon D40X. The problem with the D40X is that it doesn’t contain a motor for auto-focus in the body (like the D80 does). To get around this you have to buy the new range of Nikkor AF-S lenses, but these can often cost quite [...]

Incremental backups with rsync

  • Posted by Rob
  • 30 March, 2008

I’ve been using rsync for a while now for doing backups.
I currently run my main pc, and a network pc (acting as a NAS), and use rsync to backup files between each pc. Here’s an example command.
rsync -rvt -pog –delete –progress –itemize-changes –stats "/media/storage/music/" "/media/backup/music/"

-r = recursive (to include sub-folders)
-v = verbose (so it shows [...]