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Spring Cleaning

I decided to clean up some disks tonight, make some (AES128-encrypted) backups of my laptop hard disk in preparation for installing Panther.

I've been neglecting to include mysqldumps of the blogs in my backups, which I finally wrote a script to do tonight. Shocking. Between Henry, Pete, Mike, and myself, we have produced 2 megabytes of text data on our blogs. Some of that is mysql formatting garbage, a little more are Movable Type templates, but still there is some solid text here. In my mind the amount is incredible. Even with all the grammatical errors that I make during late-night posts (most of which I notice, some of which I just never get around to cleaning up).

Anyway, a shout-out to James for lending me Panther and for giving me the mighty backup warning: apparently this new OS can cause problems for those of us that have "broken" our /Library directories to make things more GNU.

Of course, also in this whole mess, I noticed that my primary disk was full. Sorry about that. I wrote a script to clean up my security camera pictures, but apparently forgot to actually put it in the cron directory, so my disk had a few months of video storage sitting around on it. Fellow bloggers attempting to update their sites were probably greeted with some rather harsh errors. Whoops! And All Fixed!