Category Archives: SysAdmin

I’ve been playing around with Solaris 10 on my development V880 at work and generally enjoying it. ZFS is a thing of beauty and Zones have turned out to be very helpful. It’s not unusual for a researcher to come … Continue reading →

Yes it’s still turned on by default at least in Solaris 10 update 2. That’ll teach me not to portscan new *nix installs where I’m not completely familiar with the OS defaults. Seriously though, is there a good reason for … Continue reading →

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 →

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 →

Like most people I’ve got a number of MySQL servers with different databases running things like Wikis and other web-apps. MySQL ships with a handy little tool called mysqldump which can be used to dump ( as the name suggests … Continue reading →

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been chipping away at the problem of our department having no backups whatsoever. Being a small department with few machines and a fairly small amount of data I’ve decided that systems like Bacula … Continue reading →

I’ve moaned about the state of the SGI cluster here at WeSC before. I’m now happy to report that it’s almost back to full fitness. After playing about with the external CD-ROM a bit more it became apparent that it … Continue reading →