So I've been having a lot of issues lately with my bigadv folding cause of power outages in florida killing my bigadv units and stuff so I wrote my own backup script to be able to resume from the last checkpoint. Since I do this at work everyday it was a simple script, unlike the Evga one, mine does not need you to change the windows registry. KISS method, keep it simple stoopid.
Props to Cypher- for the file hosting
Now you are all set, every hour on the hour the backup of your current work unit will show up in /usr/local/fah/backup, looks something like 2010-01-10-2300.tgz corresponding to the date and time it was created. It will auto delete any backups over 12 hours old, so no worries about cleanup.
Now there is a quirk, sometimes a backup will give you an error, if this happens try an older backup.
I hope this helps some people having some power issues or crashing issues from bigadv folding like me.
[Begin Rant]
Last month I've lost couple bigadv wu's at 88% 75% and 43%, wasted cpu cycles, due to an unstable overclock i7@4ghz 20x200
Also lost a couple when my power breaker crapped out on me during christmas eve.
This week lost one at 92% due to power company couldn't keep up with power demands of people turning on the heat. yea I was pissed
[/End Rant]
Comments are welcome, please report any bugs to me, pm me, post on this thread or come talk to me on the Hardocp channel on irc.dp.cx #hardocp. Thanks
Known Issues at the moment:
you might see "cannot create /usr/local/fah/backup because it exists", ignore it, doesn't affect anything. Fixed in v1.1
No known issues at the moment
Fold on my [H]ard Brethren!
Props to Cypher- for the file hosting
Installation:
In your VM type the following commands:
(If you are currently folding a bigadv unit, you do not have to stop it to install the backup script, hold Alt and press F2, to put it to the background, it will not affect your folding. login do the install below, then hit Alt and F1 to go back to your folding screen)
(If you are upgrading to the 1.1 version follow the same instructions as below but no need to run the ./setup.sh script, as you already have it installed)
cd
wget http://xploited1.com/backup_v1.1.tgz
mkdir /usr/local/fah/backup
cd /usr/local/fah/backup
tar xvzf /usr/local/fah/backup_v1.1.tgz
./setup.sh
Now you are all set, every hour on the hour the backup of your current work unit will show up in /usr/local/fah/backup, looks something like 2010-01-10-2300.tgz corresponding to the date and time it was created. It will auto delete any backups over 12 hours old, so no worries about cleanup.
Restoring your backup:
cd /usr/local/fah/backup
ls (find the backup you want to go back to)
./restore.sh filename.tgz
Now there is a quirk, sometimes a backup will give you an error, if this happens try an older backup.
I hope this helps some people having some power issues or crashing issues from bigadv folding like me.
[Begin Rant]
Last month I've lost couple bigadv wu's at 88% 75% and 43%, wasted cpu cycles, due to an unstable overclock i7@4ghz 20x200
Also lost a couple when my power breaker crapped out on me during christmas eve.
This week lost one at 92% due to power company couldn't keep up with power demands of people turning on the heat. yea I was pissed
[/End Rant]
Comments are welcome, please report any bugs to me, pm me, post on this thread or come talk to me on the Hardocp channel on irc.dp.cx #hardocp. Thanks
Known Issues at the moment:
you might see "cannot create /usr/local/fah/backup because it exists", ignore it, doesn't affect anything. Fixed in v1.1
No known issues at the moment
Fold on my [H]ard Brethren!
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