The Gitlab.com database incident of 2017/01/31 and the resulting data loss reminded everyone (at least for the next days) how it’s easy to lose data, even when you think all your systems are safe. Being really interested by the process of backing up data, I read with interest the report (kudos to the Gitlab company …
Follow me on Identi.ca or Twitter or Diaspora* Sysadmins usually know ServerSpec, a tool allowing to check if your servers are correctly configured. The use of automated deployment tools makes deployments easier and easier, but lot of unexpected situations can come up using this tool, especially when more and more servers are implied. ServerSpec allows to verify …
Follow me on Identi.ca or Twitter or Diaspora* Backup-manager is a tool creating backups and storing them locally. It’s really usefult to keep a regular backup of a quickly-changing trees of files (like a development environment) or for traditional backups if you have a NFS mount on your server. Backup-managers is also able to send backup itself …
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 …
Suivez-moi aussi sur Diaspora* ou Twitter ou sur Identi.ca De très bons articles en français sont écrits tous les jours par la communauté francophone du Logiciel Libre, que ce soit via des blogs de passionnés, les sites incontournables de la communauté, les sites ou blogs d’entreprises. Pour s’y retrouver dans ce fourmillement, le Journal Du …
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 …
Suivez-moi aussi sur Identi.ca ou Twitter ou Diaspora* Le titre évoque une situation malheureusement bien connue des sysadmins. Pour éviter cette situation, Backup Checker est un programme en ligne de commande codé en Python permettant le contrôle automatisé de l’intégrité d’archives (tar, gz, bzip2, lzma, zip) et de la cohérence des fichiers à l’intérieur des …
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 or Diaspora* Backup Checker is the new name of the Brebis project. Backup Checker is a CLI 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 …
Suivez-moi aussi sur Identi.ca ou sur Twitter Peu de temps avant ce Noël, l’équipe du projet Brebis a publié la version “Bouddhinette” 0.9 du vérificateur automatisé de sauvegardes. Pour rappel, Brebis est un programme en ligne de commande codé en Python permettant le contrôle automatisé de l’intégrité d’archives (tar, gz, bzip2, lzma, zip) et de la cohérence des fichiers …