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iBiblio receives Certificate of Acknowledgement and Congratulations from North Carolina house of representatives

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Certificate of Acknowledgement and Congratulations for iBiblio

Whereas, October 31, 2007 will be the 15th anniversary of the first public demo of sunsite.unc.edu, which is now known as iBiblio.org; and

Whereas, the iBiblio website digital repository and community have become cultural treasures of the state of North Carolina, and

Whereas, iBiblio has played a pivotal role as both a medium and advocate for the free and open sharing of digital information.

Then, therefore this Eighth Day of March
In the Year of Two Thousand Seven,
Representatives Deborah Ross and Verla Insko recognize
iBiblio

For its commitment and contributions to technology and culture,
and to the North Carolina community as a whole.

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Backup script from Jon Mills

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on 1/18/2007
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ibiblio colleague and systems guru John Mills writes:

So, I remember you had a cute backup script for OS X. Well I have an external USB drive, which I don't want active all the time. My script runs from a cronjob, and automatically mounts and unmounts the external drive, and uses rsync to copy the files.

Here's the script, called backup.sh:

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BASH:
  1. #! /bin/bash
  2.  
  3. # Definitions
  4. DISK=disk1s1
  5. DIR_NAME=jonmills
  6. SOURCE=/Users/${DIR_NAME}/
  7. DEST=/Volumes/Backup/${DIR_NAME}/
  8. EXCLUDE=/var/log/backup/excludes.${DIR_NAME}
  9.  
  10. # Mount a disk by hand with disktool
  11. /usr/sbin/disktool -m ${DISK}
  12.  
  13. # Wait for the disk to spin up, or else this won't work
  14. sleep 10
  15.  
  16. # Copy the files with rsync
  17. /usr/bin/rsync -av \
  18. --delete \
  19. --delete-excluded \
  20. --exclude-from=${EXCLUDE} \
  21. ${SOURCE} \
  22. ${DEST}
  23.  
  24. # Unmount the disk manually with disktool
  25. /usr/sbin/disktool -u ${DISK}

crontab looks like this:

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CODE:
  1. #
  2. # min   hour    mday    month   wday    command</code>
  3.  
  4. # Run the script at 4:30 AM and mail me the log
  5. 30     4       *       *       *       ~/.backup.sh 2>&1 | mail -s "Backup Log - `date`" _____@gmail.com

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