Another way of making a backup

I am trying to speed up my daily backups. Last monday Raimond Kollman suggested to use rsync. So the last days I started playing with rsync… and it looks very nice So the steps I want to take is: Do every hour a rsync (incremental) of the files …

Building a website for dancers

Recently I offered my sister to build a website for her Dance-Company M’aM. Though it must be a little creative… and they also had a professional photoshoot… so I started looking around through the pictures which were made to get inspired… …

We have a little daughter

Hi All,Friday evening at 23.57h is our little daughter born! Her name is JorinaMore pictures can be found on her website

Secure the data and read it within Linux and Windows

Since a long time I was searching for a way to encrypt my data on a USB-stick. But one of the attention points is, it must be used within a Linux and Windows environment. After reading an article in the Linux Journal I found TrueCrypt. TrueCrypt i…

It ain’t be faster…

To speed up the backup-scripts I tried two different ways of transfering the data… I tried tar -cjvf test-1.tar.bz2 data/* scp test-1.tar.bz2 backup@remote:/home/backup/or tar -cjvf – | ssh backup@remote dd of=/home/backup/test-2.tar.bz2And …

Restore e-mail & some more stuff

At this moment I running on a daily base a backup of serveral files on my primary server. Today I discovered that I deleted an e-mail which I still needed… So I checked the backup files of the /home/*/Maildir and I found the deleted e-mail… af…

Monitoring the server by a webinterface

I want to keep my fingers on the operations on my servers. But I don’t have all the time the access to a SSH-client. So I wrote a tiny PHP-script which creates a summary of the server using the next tools:smbstatus, for monitoring SMB-connectionsw…

Black-list for the public

As you now, there are a lot of people thinking that my weblog is a free advertising environment… and no I am not! So what I did… I wrote a small script which checks on posted comments (note comments are disabled by default);get the IP-address …

Uptime of a remote server

On my website I wanted the uptime of two servers, but I don’t want to use complex SSH-stuf-remote-command-PHP-script (because of vulnerabilities). So I was thinking about a javascript which fetches some data from the other server (again it would b…

And there was no spam … no e-mail… nothing

This morning I discovered that the whole world was blocked to send mail to my servers… So I start digging into the /var/log/maillog stuff and guess what… I used the ORDB.ORG databases and ORDB stopped with their services… and I could have kn…