If you haven’t gotten around to setting up regular backups of your website MySQL databases you are asking for serious trouble. In this article I am going to provide shell script examples that you can use to quickly setup database backup jobs. As far as scope goes, we are going to be talking about how to perform a backup to a local directory, compress that backup file, and then port it off to a remote location if you so desire. The following method has worked really well for me and I hope it does for you as well.
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This site and a bunch of my other sites were down yesterday. I am slightly embarrassed as to the reason why. All the same, I will share what happened, hoping that it might save someone else the trouble I caused myself. This was a true newbie mistake on my part…
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“Enterprise Log Search and Archive” (AKA ELSA) is an open-source project started by an individual who needed the ability to not just collect logs from a bunch of devices but to also quickly search and parse them. And by a “bunch” I mean on the scale of millions and millions of logs. A lot of traditional open-source systems use REGEX to parse logs, which is fine on a small scale but quickly falls apart under volume. ELSA takes a different approach and in the words of it’s creator allows “Google-fast searching on a massively large set of logs” and it does so by using a combination of MySQL and:
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I am just archiving this link for myself (and anyone else that needs this information) as well as the pertinent information therein.
Basically if you run multiple OpenVPN servers in your environment you probably need your OpenVPN Connect Client to be able to handle multiple profiles. This isn’t enabled out of the box for the client software. A little googling though and I came across this article:
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This tutorial is going to be a bit to the point so there is an assumption that you have a level of comfort with Linux and with basic file manipulation, ownership, etc. I recently launched a new site, www.mtkfirmware.com, that is focused on collecting firmware for Mediatek based devices. The majority of the site is dedicated to firmware download collection. However there is a subset of the site called “dev-tools” that is specifically a collection of software and tutorials on how to modify Mediatek roms. In this case, we are focusing on roms that can be flashed using the SPflash tool which means their format is a series of .img files, a scatter file, etc. Many Mediatek devices are for the Chinese/Asian market and therefore come with a lot of software that is of little interest to western users. Many just come with bloatware that is of interest to no one. Therefore it is often desirable to modify the firmware for these devices and remove all the bloat as well as do a bunch of other things.
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