Nowadays, when LVM2 is common and is actually the default in installation of RedHat based distributions, using its snapshot capabilities can save lots of grief when files are deleted or when you need to revert to a day in the past – both for your files and for your MySQL DB. I have created a…
It is a question I’ve been asked a while back, and didn’t find the time to search for it. I have searched for an answer just now, and got to an answer given by one of the old-time gurus (most likely) in news servers (where the gurus lurk, usually). The answer is to use the…
It works for MPlayer, both on Windows and on Linux: mplayer -dumpstream mms://url.of.file.com/movie You get a file called stream.dump, which name you need to change according to its actual suffix. So we get the file type using "file" file stream.dump And then renaming it accordingly.
A copy of a post made in Ubuntu forms, with the hope it would help others in status such as I’ve been in. Available through here In afterthought, I think the header should be non-common, rahter than non-standard… Hi all. I have passed through this forum yesterday, searching for a possible cause for a problem…
The trick is simple, and many of those who deal with HA cluster get at least once to such a setup – have HA cluster without HA. Yep. Single node, just to make sure you know how to get this system to play. I have just completed it with Linux Heartbeat, and wish to share…
When you own a data storage, one of your major considerations is how to backup your data. Several solutions exist to answer this question. When your data grows to a certain size, you encounter an additional issues – How to backup the data with minimum performance impact. It is quite obvious that backup devices has…
