Sun, 01 Jan 2006
Backup RCS Directories Script
Source control is an essential part of a smart techies life. While the
bigger version control systems are mostly useful to developers (SVK rocks)
some of the simpler ones can often be found in the sysadmins toolkit.
A couple of companies I've worked for have been heavy users of RCS on their servers and while it's made configuration safer (and easier to revert) its lack of a central repository is often an unaddressed weakness. The Backup RCS Directories Script scans a machine for any RCS directories and creates a gzipped tar archive from the results. This file can then be pulled off the machine as part of the standard backup routine.
The script has a couple of what I consider "nice to haves", by default it'll scan the entire file system looking for RCS directories. If this proves to be too heavy weight for you then create a file called '/etc/backuprcs_searchpath.conf' and put the paths you want searched in it. And the script will stick to those. It also logs to syslog when it's finished running so you can write a simple watcher to tell you if it doesn't run each given period. Now you've just got to think about how to get each machines backups to a single place...
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Posted: 2006/01/01 13:18 | /tools/commandline | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
Blosxom Plugin: add_to_delicious
The add_to_delicious plugin was inspired by an xml.com article, called
Putting
RSS to Work: Immediate Action Feeds, which made the very sensible
suggestion of allowing you to "do things" to RSS items without leaving your
aggregator. This plugin changes each post (both RSS and HTML flavours) and
adds a clickable link that takes you to a pre-populated "add link to
del.icio.us" page.
The add_to_delicious source code is pretty simple but you'll probably need to change the '$post_url' to suit your sites permalink format. The code's GPL'd and running on my own site so it mostly works.
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Posted: 2006/01/01 11:53 | /tools/online | Permanent link to this entry | This entry + same date
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