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Comment on Mirrored Drives with Ubuntu by Roo

Roo — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 01:26:39 +0000

The nightly mirror is another good strategy, especially if you have it automated.

My primary backup story is based on rsync as well. I’m using rsnapshot which makes incremental backups a snap. See my write up on that here http://www.lowtek.ca/roo/2009/time-machine-and-linux/

I haven’t quite gotten to the point of doing offsite backups, but that’s on my to-do list.

Comment on Mirrored Drives with Ubuntu by Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:54:43 +0000

Thanks for the article, Roo. Just as another idea, I keep a mirror as well, but I only update it nightly with a cron job. I use rsync-backup which not only does a backup, but also lets me do point-in-time rollbacks. The downside, of course, is that I can be as much as 24 hrs out of date on my backup. The advantages, however, are that the backup drive sees far less use than the main drive; I have incremental timed backups; and an accidental delete or overwrite of a file does not immediately hit the backup drive, so I can use it for a recover.

Comment on Samsung ML-2010 Toner Refill by Roo

Roo — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 04:32:32 +0000

Sandy, that is an interesting development. The ML-2010 is very refill friendly not having any of the chips / fuses that other printers use to prevent the refilling of cartridges. So it does make some sense that they’d modify the cartridge to be less refill friendly.

The deal with the hole maker is that they melt the plastic vs. drilling. The reason you don’t want to drill/cut is that any plastic waste will contaminate the cartridge. I suspect using a soldering iron would work fine (it might make a bit of a mess to the iron tip, but some sandpaper should clean that up). If you look, the hole makers are basically a soldering iron with some copper pipe on the end. If you’re handy you can probably build one easily.

As for ‘heat resistant tape’ – hah. I can’t imagine that the plastic gets all that hot. I’d use some black electrical tape to cover up the hole.

Comment on Samsung ML-2010 Toner Refill by Sandy M

Sandy M — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 18:23:40 +0000

OK, sounded great so I purchased the ink. Well guess what, there were NO SCREWS to remove. Called the company and they said, oh, well some newer cartridges no longer have screws so now you need to buy a hole maker for another $11.00. On another site it sells for $6.00 but this site says you should have received a piece of heat resistant tape to cover holes with the ink purchase, which I didn’t. This gets more complicated as time goes on and I haven’t even tried to fill it yet. Any comments?

Comment on Samsung ML-2010 Toner Refill by Roo

Roo — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:56:44 +0000

Edward, I’m only guessing as I haven’t taken mine apart to validate this – but is it possible there was a missing end cap on that other end? This would explain the cause of the mess.

Either way, based on the comments here by others – your problem is somewhat unique. I’d have to attribute it to the refurbished cartridge being non-standard in some way.

Comment on Samsung ML-2010 Toner Refill by Edward P.

Edward P. — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:20:22 +0000

I didn’t even realize the other end came off. Dug through the trash and took the other end off (2 screws) and prying up the plastic plate. No cap under there just white plastic wheels and the cavity they were in was filled with toner. Since this was a refill of a refurbished cartridge could that have been a non standard item when I purchased it?