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alright not that any of you care - unless theres some unknown geeks out there reading this…. but I got into the whole bash script thing and wrote one that archives the HoTTProxy logs every tuesday. I might change that to every other tuesday or something. It moves the log file to the archive folder with the date on the end, and then ‘touch’s a new log file. then to make sure it writes to the log, it restarts the HoTTProxy service. I’m not sure this is absolutely necessary, but I know the process works if I do. Otherwise, it wouldn’t write anything to the log file, even after i ‘touch’ed it.

Here’s the script, incase you want it:

#!/bin/bash
#
# Jonathon Reinhart 2-25-2006
# Archives HoTTProxy logs
#
mv /etc/HoTTProxy/HoTTProxyLog.txt /etc/HoTTProxy/log-archive/HoTTProxyLog_`date +%F`.txt
touch /etc/HoTTProxy/HoTTProxyLog.txt
/etc/init.d/HoTTProxy restart

Ok, backup is now in place.  I didn’t need to use rsync or anything fancy, just a simple bash script and 2 lines in etc/crontab.  Monday mornings at 8am, it makes a tar of /etc (config files); /srv (web sites); and /var/lib/mysql (MySQL database) and puts it in /backup, which is the mount point for my second harddrive (4GB) in the server.

Then, to keep that relatively small drive from getting full, every monday at 2pm, it searches thru /backup and deletes (rm) any .bz2 (they’re Bzip2 compressed) files that are older than 60 days.  If it still comes close (ie I post a lot of stuff to this blog, or laura goes hog-wild on the themes, or alex makes more videos) I will bump that 60 down to 30 or something

I’ve also got it set so I can download the backups thru the online admin console (that you can’t get too haha) and burn them to CD or somethin…..

Alright everyone, this has been posted from my phone using MWeb’s mobile proxy service mweb.kicks-ass.net test sucessful!

Ok pure-ftpd now boots when the server does.  Before I had to re-remember what the command to start it was:

pureftpd -l puredb:/etc/pureftpd.pdb &

now I figured out that my script was just calling the binary from the wrong path (/usr/sbin instead of /usr/local/sbin).  So i fixed that and its all smooth.

Next task is to set up rsync to automatically (cron?) backup all the websites (pretty much /srv/* ) , my config files ( /etc/*) and the precious mysql databases (dont know where those are yet).

Also would like to get nagios (monitoring software) working good but that might be a task…

So, theres been alot going on with MWeb… I somehow managed to all but destroy my perl installation with SuSE updates. Be careful when you do those! I reinstalled the CPAN.pm module manually, and reinstalled a few other mods thru cpan and now it works. I mangaged to get upgraded to php5, and got mysql running smoothly. That should be obvious because this (which I just installed, runs on a mysql database). Enough rambling for now.