Archive for the 'sysadmin' Category

Reliable Linux backups: How to backup Linux, BSD and other Unix-like systems properly

Monday, April 19th, 2010

General notes about backup systems, useful when u need to explain something to other ppl, — use can use this notes instead of writing your own. (no info about “advanced” topics, like differential, incremental, reverse vs forward deltas, bare-metal r…

Man page of ddsnap [Sync LVM snapshots to backup server]

Thursday, April 15th, 2010

a way to ‘sync’ block devices in ‘rsync’ style. Useful to implement backup of xen VMs based on LVM volumes. Also see http://serverfault.com/questions/27397/sync-lvm-snapshots-to-backup-server

YouTube – Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization: RHEV-M Demo

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

demo of the interface with comments for http://www.redhat.com/virtualization/rhev/server/

ipt_NETFLOW – Форумы NAG.RU

Friday, March 19th, 2010

pieces of info about how to compile and use ipt_netflow kernel module on centos 5

robtex- swiss army knife internet network information tool

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

websites that provides a lot of useful info, like RBL (Relay Black Lists ), DNS, AS, BGP, etc

Red Hat Knowledgebase: How can I make Network interface names persistent accross reboots in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?

Monday, March 15th, 2010

writing udev rules for ethernet inteffaces

GreenSQL | Open Source Database Security, SQL Injection Prevention

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

SQL-proxy/filtering software for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases, used to prevent SQL-injection-like attacks, filter-out dangerous SQL, etc

The Twitter Engineering Blog

Friday, February 19th, 2010

all sorts of system and software engineering info from Twitter. Also see http://twitter.com/about/opensource

Anatomy of the libvirt virtualization library

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

useful article about “libvirt” – a common management interface for different visualization software

How to Override Blocked Auto-Forwarding for Select Users

Thursday, January 14th, 2010

MS Exchange 2000 and 2003 do not allow users to create auto-reply/vacation/forwarding rules