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]........