Wednesday, July 17 2013

Distributed server backups with btsync

I recently discovered bittorrent-sync (btsync) and I'm in love! This post details how I've implemented this fantastic tool to build a resilient, distributed and FREE backup solution for my servers.

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Saturday, May 26 2012

Installing ipset on CentOS 6

I assume this will work on RedHat 6 too:

# yum install http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/BZ/477115/ipset-6.7-2.el6.x86_64.rpm http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/BZ/477115/libmnl-1.0.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm http://people.redhat.com/twoerner/BZ/477115/libmnl-devel-1.0.1-1.el6.x86_64.rpm

Yes, you can copy and paste.

Note that this isn't adding any repositories, so I'm not sure what impact this will have in future since the packages won't get automatically updated by `yum update` (security updates, breakage when kernel updates etc?)

Friday, January 9 2009

Custom Partitioning on ArchLinux with Linode

Partitioning schemes are a hot topic and everyone has their own preference. Including me. I'm not going to tell you how you should partition your Linux setup, but I will tell you how to do it in ArchLinux on a Linode. I used LVM and will be using LVM in this post.

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