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• Data and Technology

  Posted on August 13th, 2007

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  filesystem, limits, solaris, tar, ufsdump, ufsrestore

  Moving Large Directories on Solaris

  

  When moving or copying really really large directories on Solaris, you can sometimes run into trouble, especially when some of the files in those directories are larger than 8 Gigabytes. One solution is to use a “ufsdump pipe to ufsrestore” command, but I have even had problems with this from time to time. My perfered [...]

• Data and Technology

  Posted on September 16th, 2005

  Written by cliff

  Tags

  backups, blog, blog backup, blogging, gnu tar, gzip, HowTo, mysql, mysqldump, nightly backup, recovery, shell script, tar, wordpress, wordpress backup, wp-backup

  WordPress Backup Script

  I wrote this little script the other day to back up my WordPress install. Because I use Navicat, I had always been pretty good about backing up the database, but I didn’t backup the install base nearly as often as I should have. I’m sure it won’t be useful for everyone because it requires access [...]

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