March 28, 2012
by Loren
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The Backup Script pushs3.py: import boto import sys import os import datetime import zipfile #import pdb;pdb.set_trace() # Zip Up the folder first folder_path = ‘/tmp/dbbackup/’ output_path = ‘/tmp/SQL_Backup.zip’ FilesToZip = os.walk(folder_path) zip_file = zipfile.ZipFile(output_path, ‘w’) for root, folders, files … Continue reading
November 21, 2011
by Loren
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# # Bash Time stamps # HISTTIMEFORMAT=”[%c] ” export HISTTIMEFORMAT # # Personal Aliases # alias ssr=’ssh -l root’ PS1=”\n \w (\[\033[0;36m\]\u\[\033[0m\])$ “
July 13, 2011
by Loren
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So lets start by defining what ip aliases are. I put these in the same category as virtual interfaces. In other words these are not physically connected interfaces but are stacked on top of the main interface, in most cases … Continue reading
May 26, 2011
by Loren
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With the need to back fill my time some days I have been looking into and trying to get a centralized syslog server deployed for a while. This is a huge benefit for the fact that as it says it … Continue reading
May 14, 2009
by Loren
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So if you have ready any of my previous postings you will see that I setup nginx as a reverse proxy to help speed things up on my personal VPS. This seemed to work wonders and dramatically reduced the load … Continue reading
May 9, 2009
by Loren
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In the world of servers there are many options when it comes to protecting your disks and the data on those disks. You can create backups of your disks or even get creative and rsync your data to another drive … Continue reading
April 29, 2009
by Loren
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So with Disk space being an issue I thought how can we clean up on a cPanel server. This script is not perfect but it does a good job of clearing about 1GB of disk space on average I have … Continue reading
April 29, 2009
by Loren
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Recently a co-worker mentioned that they tried out nginx and noticed that it was quite snappy. I didn’t know exactly how it worked but thought I would give it a try. As a result I had this site down for … Continue reading
March 30, 2009
by Loren
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Well recently I have been very interested in some aspects with securty at work. I have been testing and reviewing some great DVR systems that run on linux. So I went ahead and added a VPS to my OpenVZ server … Continue reading
March 27, 2009
by Loren
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All I shall say is I think Virutozzo 4 should have kept the progress bar like in Virtuozzo 2.5 and 3.0.