backup

reformat external usb drive

Reformatting It was running a 15 year old NTFS and it seems to have become (at least partially) corrupted. I decided to do the hardcore thing and reformat all of it. A nifty site1 told me about the mkfs program, which made a lot of sense since I am long-since converted to the values of ext4. I was surprised to learn that my system already had the mkfs program on it, so away we went!

Backing up my JDBC Crux: is this it?

If you inspect the JDBC database backing a Crux install, you will find it contains only one table – tx_events. Don’t be alarmed; it seems this really does contain the information that constitutes the document database so pg_dump will do its job. See Crux Zulip Thread