Tweet Hi there! Backing up your code repository is important. Backing up your code repository to an off-site location in a secure manner is imperative. Throughout our travels and experience utilizing the SVN code repository system, we have developed a quick bash script to export the entire SVN repository, encrypt it, compress it into an [...] Read More
Centralized remote backup script with SSH key authentication
Tweet Greetings, It has been a while since we posted any useful tidbits for you , so we have decided to share one of our quick & dirty centralized backup scripts. The script relies on ssh key based authentication, described here on this blog. It essentially parses a configuration file where each variable is separated [...] Read More
Backup a live FreeBSD filesystem and remotely migrate to another server
Tweet Lately we’ve been all about live migrations / backups here at *.hosting. And why not? with the advent of such concepts as “self healing blade cloud environment” , we have made a point to testing / scripting live migration scenarios. Following on our last post of backing up LVM volumes, we have decided to [...] Read More
Amazon S3 Backup script with encryption
Tweet With the advent of cloud computing, there have been several advances as far as commercial cloud offerings, most notably Amazon’s EC2 computing platform as well as their S3 Storage platform. Backing up to Amazon S3 has become a popular alternative to achieving true offsite backup capabilities for many organizations. The fast data transfer speeds [...] Read More