Backup everything
Whatever you find and use — make a copy of it and put it on Amazon S3 or the local network. With larger teams even a local Ubuntu mirror (or whatever you use) can come in handy.
This includes base boxes, packages, etc.. Nothing is more annoying than waking up and not being able to bootstrap your VMs because someone decided to remove something in order to force you to upgrade.
Don't dumb it down!
Typically, PHP applications are developed on a single host …
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Backup & restore MySQL and InnoDB data, and describe the advantages of common backup methods (mysqldump, file system snapshot, InnoDB hot backup).
Setup and administer MySQL replication.
Monitor MySQL servers in production.
Discuss security issues with MySQL.
Solve via case-study some real-life problems that Percona consultants faced in MySQL.
Understand the basic operation of InnoDB—including how data is stored on disk and in memory.
Understand what InnoDB…
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…available
Downloading from s3 in parallel
Parallel encryption/description
Hardlinking of backups. Given both our mydumper and xtrbackup are seperated by file, for files that don't change they can be easily hardlinked to typically save 20-80% of space locally
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iPhone Backup Extractor - When doing iPhone support, it is sometimes beneficial to get a copy of the user's data and preferences. Using this application, it's fairly easy for the user to handle on their end.
Library Inspector - There have been a few times I've wanted to see what was in a static library.
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Last but not least..
Dumper: Cloud Database Backup Service for Rails
A (paid) service that hooks into your Rails app and provides cloud-based backup. Has a free trial though.
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Word to the Wise: Backup Your System
Before performing any major upgrade, always make sure that you have the latest backup of your Mac. If you already have Time Machine set up, all you need to do is intiate another manual backup . It's also a good idea to verify your backup afterward to make sure that it's working.
If you have been leading a carefree life and did not bother setting up Time Machine, or would like to make sure that you can come back …
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…makes things worse.
Backup CloudPull will back up your Google accounts (email, calendar, docs) to your Mac.
UX Ziptastic is a new service that makes form filling easier by filling in country, state and city from zip code.
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…infrastructure, begat a co-processor for Cassandra, Priam , used for Backup and recovery, Bootstrapping, Centralized configuration management, and RESTful monitoring and metrics. This is why Troy was never actually destroyed, it was simply backedup in-situ to another region.
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Backing Up with Backup: A Neat DSL for Backup Operations
Pat Allan loves Michael van Rooijen's 'backup' gem so much that he wants to to convince you to use it, by showing you two examples of why he finds it so useful. It does seem pretty handy..
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For the above, I added Ninefold support to Backup, and Michael was kind enough to merge my commits in.
For my next script, though, I'm syncing directories to both S3 (in Singapore) and Rackspace (in the UK). The current releases of Backup don't support syncing to Rackspace - but I ended up taking inspiration from fellow Melburnian Ryan Allen's Sir Sync-a-Lot and rewrote the S3 support with his bulk MD5 approach. The code was simple enough - thanks …
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