Using tar and ssh to efficiently copy files preserving permissions
I found this so useful and have to go hunting for it fairly often that I decided to save a copy on my webpage. Source is located at the bottom.
Have you had situations where disk-space is sparse, so making full tars (although compressed) is impossible? Here is an ssh trick that could help you copy over files without using too much diskspace.
This trick will tar a directory from a computer, but the file that it would normally create, is standard out, so it is redirected back to the script on the computer you are working on. The computer you are working on extracts the information directly, so there is no location where (redundant) files are stored.
ssh user@machine-where-precious-data-is "tar czpf - /some/important/data" | tar xzpf - -C /new/root/directoryYou are now directly copying data from the “machine-where-precious-data-is” to the machine you are working on, using the benefits of tar (preserving permissions, links, etc) but not being hindered by the difficulties of tar. (making these possibly large files and so on.)
I used this trick to copy users directories from one machine to the other.An alternative command, reverse and not crossing filesystem boundries:
tar cXpf - /some/important/data | ssh user@destination-machine "tar xpf - -C /some/directory/"
SOURCE: http://meinit.nl/using-tar-and-ssh-to-efficiently-copy-files-preserving-permissions
Clouldeight InfoAve
So my grandma was having issues playing a Quicktime MOV file emailed to her from my little brother’s iPhone with the Quicktime Player. Rather than try and figure out why Quicktime won’t play a file it should know very well how to handle I suggested she download and use VLC instead. That solved her problem. Now the other day I get an email from her with the same title as this post.
It would seem she is a subscriber to Cloudeight InfoAve and she emailed in asking if they had heard of VLC. Apparently they hadn’t because they put her question in their weekly issue.
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New Server
Yeah. Moving all my stuff to a VPS server. Using a company I have used in the past, RoseHosting.com. They have nice, stable, linux VPS solutions. You can get a damn good deal too if you manage to catch them during one of their rare specials. As an added bonus that special is what you get permanently. It isn’t a temporary special that last so many months then you go back to the regular pricing or whatever. As you can tell I managed to catch one of these specials.
I’m also organizing all my stuff the “correct” way. Rather than the jumbled mess that I’ve meant to fix up for a long time. So links will be breaking and working, then breaking again. :/
All the links on the blog here however should all be set and ready to go. No worries there, already took care of the blog. It is the other crap that scares me….
nVidia card ranking
Just because I’m always forgetting and looking it up over and over again. GTX, GTS, GT, GS, and G.
Going from left to right is the easy way to determine how good a card is compared to other cards in the same model number.
In other words a GTX 280 is suppose to be better (and pricier) than a GTS 280. This may not always be the case though but a good rule of thumb.
Been awhile.
I haven’t made a entry here is quite some time. This just isn’t really my thing, I guess. This place will probably always be mostly neglected. Hopefully I come up with some kind of use for this place. :/
Done it now….
Went and posted this about the origins of my name:
Creed was playing on the radio one day when I was trying to come up with a new name for a character in Diablo II after a ladder reset. Yeah I played the hell outta that game long after it should have been deceased, decomposed, and used as fertilizer for the upcoming Diablo III. Went through several iterations for the name. Creedmain -> Credmain -> Credmane. As is my habit I reuse part of my name in all the characters I make and knowing the reused part is what I’ll be called by. In this case “Cred”. Not liking the sound of that I ended up adding an “o” for “Credo”. So I ended up with Credomane. Stopped playing Diablo II some time after that. Started using it everywhere after that. It is so bad that more people that I realize think it is my real name since everyone calls me by it. Work is the only place I’m not but even there a few do. Hell, I’m even topping Google for Credomane.
While entirely true I better lock the board registration now. >_>
Probably gonna be getting more traffic here now.
*Waves at those from Lotus*
Credomane is number one!
You read that right. Go ahead and check this link: Google.
Google has me and my site as number one. While the other places act as if my site doesn’t exist. Google loves me and I love Google.
Oh no….I didn’t just do that, right?
Please tell me I just didn’t start my own damn blog. Christ. What the hell is wrong with me. I’m never gonna keep this thing up to date in any way shape or form. Who will even read the damn thing!?
Still a lot of construction going on with me having just started this up about I dunno 4 hours ago. I hope to attract some of the old KoZ members back. 
Come say hi people! No need to be strangers!
I know it freaking sucks right now. Haven’t picked a final layout, a color scheme. Nothing basically. :/
No making phun of my horrible spelling and grammar!
