Category Archives: Linux

rSync

Written by David Ehlers on November 24, 2010 — Leave a Comment

I’m done with lame file sync programs. I am always jumping around between a number of computers and need the latest files while not online and synced to cloud storage. Rsync works great, is free, and is already installed on all macs. Just open a shell and type: rsync –help or rsync -avx –progress –human-readable [...]

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s3 backup + mySql dump

Written by David Ehlers on June 14, 2008 — Leave a Comment

These two open source scripts are very useful when combined with cron: s3 Tools : http://sourceforge.net/projects/s3tools/ OpenSource tools to access Amazon S3 file storage. s3cmd – unix-like tools to manipulate stored files from the command line, s3fuse – driver to mount the S3 storage locally. and automysqlbackup : http://sourceforge.net/projects/automysqlbackup/ A script to take daily, weekly [...]

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wget a complete site

Written by David Ehlers on April 1, 2008 — Leave a Comment

A quick way to archive a complete site via a shell: wget -r http://yourwebsite.com Here’s the man page. GNU Wget 1.9, a non-interactive network retriever: Usage: wget [OPTION]… [URL]..

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