by Reeshma Mathews | Mar 9, 2016 | Server Management
Backups are your insurance against server failures. A well designed backup helps you quickly get back online even if the whole server is lost. For modern websites running WordPress, Magento, etc., the entire information is stored in databases. So, a sound backup...
by Reeshma Mathews | Dec 16, 2015 | ovirt
In our recent post ‘How to configure VM backups in oVirt’, we saw how we configured a VM backup system for a cloud service provider. We further went ahead and expanded the backup system with oVirt engine backups. oVirt engine manages the centralized...
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...
