Last night I was creating some manual backups from a server including an entire web sites data files as well as the databases associated with that same web site. I decided to use the tar archiving utility to pack all of the files from the web site into a single file so it could be…
I have used the NextGen Gallery WordPress plugin on a bunch of different projects and have always been satisfied with the functionality. On a recent WordPress project I was working on I installed NextGen Gallery assuming I would use it however after I got a bit further on the project I decided it wasn’t necessary…
It can be beneficial sometimes to search for patterns in files on a Linux server that have been compressed with gzip instead of having to uncompress each file to search through it. A good example of this if typically in log rotation you rotate the logs and compress the older log files so if you are troubleshooting…
When attempting to import a gzip sql file into MySQL via phpMyAdmin I continued to get the error below. There are a couple ways to get around this issue which depend on if you have access to the server or not. Below I will describe two ways to resolve the error if you have access…
The below describes creating a SVN repository from a CentOS Linux shell followed by importing a SVN repository dump into the newly created repository. This can be useful for many reasons including moving servers or even just moving the location of an SVN repo. If you don’t have subversion installed go ahead and do so…
Setting up log rotation for multiple Ruby on Rails projects on the same Linux server is easy using logrotate. If all of your projects are in the same directory structure it is even easier by using variables to work for each different project as explained below in detail. First you will need to install logrotate…
Backing up and restoring a postgreSQL database is easy from the CLI. Some people prefer using pgAdmin III however through the GUI and over a network will use a lot more resources so it is recommended to backup and restore via your Linux CLI. Follow the simple steps below to backup and restore one Postgres…