vmware workstation 10 on ubuntu 16.04

like on every update, vmware is not installable without problems. this helped me out:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/617704/failed-to-build-vmnet-for-kernel-3-19
https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/41y30m/vmware_install_problems/
https://communities.vmware.com/thread/516196?start=0&tstart=0
compiles without errors, but crashes with a dump after initialization. starting with “/usr/lib/vmware/bin/launcher.sh /usr/lib/vmware/lib /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware /usr/lib/vmware/libconf” works!

convert videos

streaming to chromecast is not possible with mkv-videos, so i had to convert them.

easy done:
for i in *mkv; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -acodec aac -vcodec h264 -strict -2 "${i%.mkv}.mp4" && rm "$i"; done;
will do it…

swap usage

run “top -d1”, then press “O” (capital letter o) followed by ‘p’, then ‘enter’. now processes should be sorted by their swap usage.

using amanda

most of it written here is copied from here.

test as root, if the server (name CLIENT) you want to recover to is allowed to work with the configuratio (name CONFIG) on the backupserver (name SERVER):

amrecover CONFIG -s SERVER

for recovering data, please read here.

the best instruction for installing and configuring amanda on debian is here.