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pflags core.12462 | grep "core "
2012-03-01 22:07:49
User: bertge
Functions: grep
Tags: solaris dump analysis
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determine process from solaris crash dump
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7zr a -mx=9 -ms=on -mhc=on -mtc=off db_backup.sql.7z db_dump.sql
2010-10-22 21:05:58
User: mandx
Tags: backup database text 7zip dump 7zr
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Best option set for 7zip compression of database dumps or generic text files

These re the best option combination that works fine for compressing my database dumps. It's possible that there are another option or value that might improve the compression ratio, by these are the ones that worked, the syntax for 7zr it's a little messy...

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ssh user@remoteserver "PGPASSWORD='passwd' pg_dump -U user bd_name | bzip2 -zv9" | bzcat | psql -U user bd_name
2010-09-24 20:25:42
User: chronos
Functions: ssh
Tags: ssh remote PostGres dump populate
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dump a remote db via ssh and populate local db with postgres
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dump -0Lauf - /dev/adXsYz | gzip > /path/to/adXsYz.dump.gz
2010-07-19 00:54:40
User: tensorpudding
Functions: dump gzip
Tags: backup gzip FreeBSD dump
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Dump snapshot of UFS2 filesystem, then gzip it

Opens a snapshot of a live UFS2 filesystem, runs dump to generate a full filesystem backup which is run through gzip. The filesystem must support snapshots and have a .snap directory in the filesystem root.

To restore the backup, one can do

zcat /path/to/adXsYz.dump.gz | restore -rf -
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find /protocollo/paflow -type f -mtime +5 | xargs tar -cvf /var/dump-protocollo/`date '+%d%m%Y'_archive.tar`
2010-06-29 12:43:30
User: 0disse0
Functions: find tar xargs
Tags: find tar dump
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How to archive all the files that are not modified in the last x number of days?

The following command finds all the files not modified in the last 5 days under /protocollo/paflow directory and creates an archive files under /var/dump-protocollo in the format of ddmmyyyy_archive.tar

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sqlite3 mydb.sqlite3 '.dump' | grep -vE '^(BEGIN|COMMIT|CREATE|DELETE)|"sqlite_sequence"' | sed -r 's/"([^"]+)"/`\1`/' | tee mydb.sql | mysql -p mydb
2009-10-02 14:40:51
User: mislav
Functions: grep sed tee
Tags: mysql sqlite dump
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Transfer sqlite3 data to mysql

Filters out all non-insert SQL operations (we couldn't filter out only lines starting with "INSERT" because inserts can span multiple lines), quotes table names with backticks, saves dump to a file and pipes it straight to mysql.

This transfers only data--it expects your schema is already in place. In Ruby on Rails, you can easily recreate the schema in MySQL with "rake db:schema:load RAILS_ENV=production".

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ssh user@machine_A dd if=/dev/dvd0 > dvddump.iso
2009-09-11 18:08:36
User: kamathln
Functions: dd ssh
Tags: ssh dvd dump
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Dump dvd from a different machine onto this one.

You can use this to directly dump from machine A (with dvd drive) to machine B (without dvd drive) . I used this to copy dvd using my friend's machine to my netbook. Above command is to be issued on machine B.

Advantages :

1) No wasting time dumping first to machine A and then copying to Machine B.

2) You dont need to use space on Machine A. In fact, this will work even when Machine A doesnt have enough hdd space to dump the DVD.

Use -C ssh option on slow networks (enables compression).

you can replace "dd if=/dev/dvd" with any ripping command as long as it spews the iso to stdout.

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cat testfile | hexdump -C
2009-09-07 11:08:43
User: zed_0xff
Functions: cat hexdump
Tags: hex hexdump dump
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Hexadecimal dump of a file, pipe, or anything
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