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 …
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 …