2015-02-07 When I bought Deseo, in 2012-05 (nearly tree years ago), Boris gave me some used CF cards to play around for the beginning. He had used each of them one year as a hard disk, then exchanged them to not risk any problems caused by wear. I must confess, I used the first of those used cards since then as the hard disk of Deseo ... nearly three more years, without any problems, as I like to add. Nonetheless, this was risky, of course, and since some months, the disk felt like becoming slower. It was clear I had to exchange it somewhen. (I already wanted to do this a year ago ...) Today, I did it eventually. First I did a full system backup: [0] cd /mnt rsync -aAXvH --exclude={"dev/*","proc/*","sys/*",\ "tmp/*","run/*","mnt/*","media/*","lost+found"}\ * /backups/deseo-cf_2015-02-07_rsync Then I copied the image from the old CF card and then onto the new one: dd if=/dev/sda of=deseo-cf_2015-02-07.dd dd if=deseo-cf_2015-02-07.dd of=/dev/sdb I did all this copying on a separate machine with a USB card reader. After inserting the new CF card with the cloned system into Deseo, the system worked at once. This is true cloning! :-) This alone was already a striking success, but I achieved even more today. I prepared the 0.3.5 release of masqmail. [1] It's just the release of the features that were present in current development version since weeks and months (and which I use on my mail server since then). Today I put a label on it. When I wanted to announce the release on Freshmeat as well, I realized that there is no Freshmeat any longer. The History goes: freshmeat.net -> freecode.com -> DEADMEAT! :-D :-( (Btw: I always found it rediculous that freecode had a .com TLD. Not that free and commercial would have been opposites -- that's not the case -- but it still made no sense. Maybe that's the rea- son this great service died.) A similar but hopefully not the same pattern can be seen with ohloh.net, which is now openhub.net. (Is oh-deadhub.net next?) Thinking positive, I added the project mmh. [2] (The project name `mmh' was already taken by a dead project, hence I chose `mmh-meillo'.) And last: To fetch the HTTP HEAD only, use: `curl -I'. [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/full_system_backup_with_rsync [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.masqmail/391 [2] https://www.openhub.net/p/mmh-meillo http://marmaro.de/lue/ markus schnalke