Pixar's color scripts

Visualizing The Incredibles' color script.

The Duck Tale

The one about hand-making Korean wedding ducks.

Smile

Transforming sketches into a mixed media piece.

RSync to the rescue

Posted on 2006-10-06 06:50:50

My iMac has been complaining about a corrupted hard disk volume header. Fortunately I have been keeping all my documents in ~/, which makes things really nice and simple to backup.

If you need to backup your home directory (includes Desktop, Documents, Pictures, Movies, Sites, etc.) to an external hard drive, fire up your terminal (which drops you into your user's home directory by default) and key rsync -aE --delete ~ /Volumes/bender/. Replace 'bender' (yep, I am a Futurama nerd) with your hard disk's name. The prefix of the string copies everything and uses my iMac as the source; it also deletes files that have moved or been renamed. Sure this is low-fi - but it works like a charm. Since I have a lot of data, I usually kick off the command and go play the guitar/drums for an hour or two.