The downside of this is that the software is not available in the package management system. Also, there is often no 'uninstall' option available from the installer script.

Excellent list of comments.

This is strickingly similar to an article in the Atlantic - Caring for your Introvert.

I hate to chime in to say what so many people have said, but the title is downright misleading. It should read something like "Set UP Real-Time, Bulletproof Drive Redundancy with RAID" or "Protect against a dead drive" or anything else but backup.

For the curious, here are the instructions / article about the script.

For the curious, here is the instruction page / article about the script.

If they've improved the sftp support, then I'll try it again. I moved to WinSCP because it was about 10x as fast.

I've never tried Unlocker, but I use ProcessExplorer to accomplish this. It's crazy useful. Of course, it's been previously featured on Lifehacker.

I've been struggling with cheap media for years. I've found it's down to the drive you read it from. I had a number of cds where he dye was chipping off - but I had one noisy Matsushita cd-rom that could read the discs (mostly) successfully where other drives (hp, lg) would not even recognize the disc. Try as many…

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