Monthly Archives: October 2006

Wikis, Wikis Everywhere

One of the first things I did when I arrived at my current job was to whack a copy of mediawiki on one of my servers so that I somewhere to write ad-hoc documentation. As time has passed we have … Continue reading

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Backups Part 3: Rotating and Culling Backups

I’ve now got backup scripts happily creating copies of all my subversion repositories and MySQL databases every 24 hours. This is great but it means you end up with an awful lot of backups. I realy don’t need a backup … Continue reading

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Backups – Part 2: Subversion

We run a subversion service for a number of different research groups. Generally we create a separate subversion repository for each group. Obviously looking after this data is important. It’s not a good idea to lose months of someone’s work. … Continue reading

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