I think this will be useful to others because I have a server that kept crashing mysteriously during intense disk usage/RAID checks. It would only crash during the weekly RAID integrity check.
ThenI noticed during a reboot that not all CPUs were being brought up, as a result this actually creates much higher temperatures with the output I got from sensors, just booting the system produced higher than normal temperatures.
You can imagine that a full blown RAID check........
Not sure what rsync switches/options to use?
rsync -PDrphogtl
The short version would be:
rsync -Pha
I think these are really common sense options to use and probaby should be the default.
Explanation of rsync switches
P = display the progress
D = hybrid of --specials and --devices so all special and device files will be copied as well.
r = recursive (otherwise rsync won't copy files deeper than........
Crontab Tutorial - Tips & Shortcuts*/5 * * * * /command
The above is an example of a command that runs every 5 minutes.
Normally instead if the "*/5" you'd have to type
"5,10,15,20,25,30,35,40,45,50,55" etc...
You can use it to run a program every 5 days, 5 months 5 years etc...Crontab run one a day at a certain time[code:1:7a3bd32dfa]0 1 * * * /home/backupguy/databackup.sh[/code:1:7a3bd32dfa]........