I’ve always wanted to go to conferences, and aside from E3 back in 2001, I haven’t really lived up to it.

I’m keeping a list of nearby conferences to Vancouver/Seattle here.  Check it out, and leave any comments you have on this post.

Hopefully someone else finds this useful.  If not, it’s useful for me!

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After my backup fiasco a couple weeks ago, I figured I should investigate backups, and see what exactly it is in a backup solution that I am looking for.

In reading up on the subject, I understood probably the best way to go about it is to do a base line full backup, and then a set of differentials. I ended up writing a neat little system in strictly bash and base UNIX tools, and it was actually getting pretty useful until I spotted rsnapshot.

Man, that’s one neat little package, and it’s super simple, easy and straight forward to set up.

In the end, I only had to write one ‘custom’ script, which was to backup my svn repositories, and it was off to the races.

If anyone’s interested in the source to my bash-based engine, let me know. It definitely taught me a lot about bash scripting!

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As my previous post has stated, my posts have all but been wiped out.

That said, through various Internet caches, I’ve begun to recover my old posts, ordered by the ones it seems people are requesting most.

Let me know if you got here and couldn’t find what you’re looking for!

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A failed server partition resize has blown away all my blog postings.  Dammit!  I thought I’d backed up everything, but I suppose it’s fathomable I might miss something that late at night.

Regardless,  the server is running better than ever, but I think my next project I blog about will be a set of backup scripts….

See ya in a bit.

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