OnTheFive Blog

Alright, so there haven’t been many updates to the MWeb Blog lately… This is pretty much because since the last post, I have moved to Dayton and now attend the University of Dayton. I’m pretty well settled in now, and I’ve been trying to get a lot done on MWeb. A good deal of my time has been spent on HPadmin - A tool somewhat similar to phpMyAdmin that I’ve been developing to do administrative tasks on HoTTProxy - the WAP Proxy that provides connectivity to mobile phones. I’ve also been making changes little by little to www.MWeb and jonathon.MWeb.

Backups
So before I left, I did manage to get the original 4GB hard drive installed in MWeb for backup and is mounted as /backup. I had to add the entry:

/dev/hdd2            /backup              reiserfs   defaults              1 2

to the /etc/fstab file. This caused a lot of problems becuase usually a second hard drive would be referred to as hdb but for some reason, Linux saw it as the fourth drive, and named it hdd. Also, note that it is partition 2 (hdd2). This is becuase it is still the same partitioning from the original MWeb SuSE 9.1 installation. And partition 1 was the original swap partition. I could also list that for additional swap, but I prefer to leave this hard drive for only backups, and not constant swap space. Additionaly, I had to remember to first actually create the directory /backup before Linux would mount the volume to that location.

I also have reinstalled the cronjob that backs up /srv and /etc weekly. Also, the cronjob had been reinstated that weekly checks /backup for .tar.bz2 files that are older than 60 days old and removes them. This is to prevent the small 4GB drive from being filled.

I have yet to find and reinstall the cronjob that does automatic weekly dumps of the MySQL databases. Apparently this is one thing I forgot to save. Shouldn’t be very hard though.

Stay tuned, as I have lots of new ideas! Also, a wiki is available here! (If I have it working again…)