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Follow me on Identi.ca or Twitter or Diaspora* Unverified backups are useless, every sysadmins know that. But manually verifying a backup means wasting time and resources. Moreover it’s boring. You should automatize it! Backup Checker is a command line software developed in Python 3.4 on GitHub (stars appreciated 🙂 ) allowing users to verify the integrity of …
Follow me on Identi.ca or Twitter or Diaspora* As a good sysadmin, you thought you had backups for your server but you didn’t verify them before the major migration you attempted? When you need them, they’re empty or full of useless files. And now it’s too late… You won’t guess how often this situation occurs. Backup Checker …
Follow me on Identi.ca or Twitter or Diaspora* Backup Checker is a command line software developed in Python 3.4, allowing users to verify the integrity of archives (tar,gz,bz2,lzma,zip,tree of files) and the state of the files inside an archive in order to find corruptions or intentional of accidental changes of states or removal of files inside an …
Follow me on Identi.ca or Twitter One of the major features of Python 3.3 is the new venv module, allowing the creation of Python virtual environments on your system. 1. What is a virtual environment? A virtual environment is a directory dedicated to the execution of your Python applications. Activating your virtual environment will force Python to …