by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Feb 17, 2010 | Server Administration
There are two major events that haunt every Webhost. One is the ghastly image of the word “HacKeD” popping up on all of the sites on their server, usually accompanied by a skull. Neon green always being the color of choice. The second is usually in the...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Nov 26, 2009 | Apache, Server Administration
In every server farm, backup systems play a vital role in data retention and and recovery. When it comes to Linux, there are many open source backup solutions available. You can setup a well organized backup strategy using rsync, dd, tar, cpio etc, as per your...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jul 29, 2009 | Server Administration
Most of the Linux servers are today loaded with the EXT3 File System. We have come across a lot of incidents where files have gone lost through a simple rm -rf command, either done accidentally or sometimes even intentionally by others. There has always been a...
by admin | Oct 22, 2008 | cPanel, Server Administration
Imagine a scenario where a data center runs out of space. What does the business need to do? It needs to find more space, build the infrastructure, racks, cooling, power and everything that needs to be done to make it a real brick and mortar data-center. Anything from...
by Hamish Oscar Lawrence | Jun 8, 2007 | Server Administration
There are many ways to backup Servers. One of the better ways to accomplish this is using rsnapshot. Rsnapshot is nothing but a filesystem snapshot utility for backing up local and remote systems. Rsnapshot is written in Perl, and depends on rsync. With ssh access, it...
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