I’ve been using Rackspace Cloud Files Sync, a little piece of software I’ve written myself, for some years now. I use it to backup my photo’s and movies I’ve shot over the last decade or so. The thing I like about it is that it syncs your local folder with a Cloud Files container. When […]
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Having done backups for MySQL using rsnapshot before I recently had to do the same thing for PostgreSQL. Turns out PostgreSQL has similar tools to do this and it’s actually quite easy to set it up. First, assuming rsnapshot will run under the root user you’ll need to create a .pgpass file at /root/.pgpass that
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I had planned on setting up a private Wiki to use as a personal clipboard collection of useful snippets for some time now but never got around to it. This week I decided it was time to get it done and so I started searching for Wiki software. I ended up trying MediaWiki but ran
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I’m currently in a small research group to see what the Raspberry Pi can mean for my school. Basically we’re checking out its features and capabilities. Our eventual goal is to create a remote controlled boat with a tracking camera on top of it. Since Perl is my language of choice I decided to see
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