Introduction This article provides a quick way to backup the most common things in a typical web hosting scenario: website files and database data. We will setup a full daily backup of a website folder and a copying of this data to a remote server (this can also work for another VPS). We will also set up a rsync example to just copy the incremental changes. Finally, we'll set up backup of a MySQL database. The procedures described use a few simple Bash commands, rsync and cron to schedule backups. For example data, we can install Wordpress as per this tutorial. It will place Wordpress in /var/www/wordpress directory and a MySQL databasewordpress and we now want to take a backup of all the data. DigitalOcean provides <ahref="https: www.digitalocean.com="" community="" articles="" digitalocean-backups-and-snapshots-explained"="">Snapshots and Backups, to handle backups and snapshots very well. There are also excellent backup-as-a-service solutions that work with the minimum configuration. But sometimes we want to use another backup server or perhaps an inhouse server, and we want a quick way to pull the data from webhost back to our server. In that case, these tips can help. There are two ways to do backup: incremental and full backups. A full backup copies all the data, while the snapshot only handles the changes since the last update. Full Backup Full backup typically does the following: Make an archive of all the files in a folder Copy the resulting archive to a remote server. As noted, our data will reside in /var/www/wordpress directory. We will designate a backup folder location. mkdir -p /backup/wordpress The…

Introduction Rsync, which stands for "remote sync", is a remote and local file synchronization tool. It uses an algorithm that minimizes the amount of data copied by only moving the portions of files that have changed. In this guide, we will cover the basic usage of this powerful utility. We will be using an Ubuntu 12.04 VPS in the examples, but you can use any modern Linux distribution to follow along. What Is Rsync? Rsync is a very flexible network-enabled syncing tool. It can also refer to the network protocol developed to utilize this tool. When we reference rsync in this guide, we are mainly referring to the utility, and not the protocol. Due to its ubiquity on Linux and Unix-like systems and its popularity as a tool for system scripts, it is included on most Linux distributions by default. Basic Syntax The basic syntax of rsync is very straight forward, and operates in a way that is similar to ssh, scp, and cp. We will create two test directories and some test files with the following commands: cd ~ mkdir dir1 mkdir dir2 touch dir1/file{1..100} We now have a directory called dir1 with 100 empty files in it. ls dir1 file1 file18 file27 file36 file45 file54 file63 file72 file81 file90 file10 file19 file28 file37 file46 file55 file64 file73 file82 file91 file100 file2 file29 file38 file47 file56 file65 file74 file83 file92 file11 file20 file3 file39 file48 file57 file66 file75 file84 file93 file12 file21 file30 file4 file49 file58 file67 file76 file85 file94 file13 file22 file31 file40 file5 file59 file68 file77 file86…

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By Tarun Mazumdar | December 13, 2013 1:50 PM EST The Pirate Bay, in an attempt to be one step ahead, moved to a new domain again. TPB switched from thepiratebay.ac to thepiratebay.pe. The Pirate Bay sources confirmed that they are developing a new system and it will make the new domain system absolutely irrelevant. The new system would curb the need of domain takedowns forever. The infamous torrent site The Pirate Bay (thepiratebay.sx) went into a non-functional mode and users were not able to access the website with .SX. Moreover, rumours had it that the site may have been taken down for good. However, The Pirate Bay resurfaced with a new domain - thepiratebay.ac. TorrentFreak reported that the registry of Sint Maarten may have been forced by BREIN (Dutch anti-piracy group) to seize the .SX domain. After the seizure, TPB moved to .AC which falls under Ascension Island. The volcanic island in the centre of the South Atlantic is under the direct control of the UK, hence was it not safe for TPB to function under thepiratebay.ac domain for long. The Pirate Bay revealed that they would move to a safer haven, probably the Peruvian (.PE) domain. The switch from .AC to .PE was rather quick. According toTorrentFreak , the TPB team is working on a new BitTorrent-driven browser that would allow the users to store and share different files with other users without the support of central hosting, thus passing the need for any domain name. The insider close to TPB told TorrentFreak that the users should wait for the new PirateBrowser,…

The Pirate Bay has switched to a new domain name again in the matter of days – from thepiratebay.ac to thepiratebay.pe, and has revealed that the new system they are developing will make the domain name system completely ‘irrelevant’ thereby closing the loophole of domain takedowns forever. Just a couple of days back The Pirate Bay (thepiratebay.sx) went down with hundreds of thousands of its users not able to access the torrent search site giving rise to speculations and rumours that the site may have gone down completely. However, within a few hours The Pirate Bay was accessible again, butthrough a ‘.AC’ domain name. It is believed that the registry of Sint Maarten, which handles the .SX domain names and falls under the jurisdiction of Dutch anti-piracy outfit BREIN, may have been forced to seize thepiratebay.sx domain. The ‘.AC’ domain (Ascension Island) is under direct control of the UK and it is just a matter of days before that domain is also seized considering how strong the anti-piracy groups are in the country. Understanding the impending danger on thepiratebay.ac, The Pirate Bay has now moved to .pe domain and has also revealed that this is just a temporary switch. The team is working on a BitTorrent-powered browser that will enable users to store and share files with other users without requiring a central hosting thereby eliminating the need for a domain name completely. “They should wait for our new PirateBrowser, then domains will be irrelevant,” an insider told TorrentFreak. “Once that is available then all links and sites will be accessible through…

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We love using OVA templates to speed up our deployment of virtual machines. I recently upgraded one of my servers to ESXi 5.1 (which also required an update to vSphere). ESXi 5.1 provides support for Windows 8 and Server 2012, which is incredibly useful. However, whilst building OVA templates for these operating systems, I stumbled across an issue. I ran through the ‘New Virtual Machine’ wizard, selecting Windows 8 (or Server 2012), leaving all settings default. Installed my operating system, and made the required customization, shutdown the machine and exported an OVA template through vSphere – excellent, how easy! However, whilst trying to re-deploy the OVA to the ESXi 5.1 host, through the ‘Deploy OVA template’ wizard, it failed immediately after completing the wizard (right before it shows the deployment progress bar). Now, I have a particular hate for misleading error messages, and this one seems to fall right in-to that category - Failed to deploy OVF package: The task was canceled by a user. How misleading. I, or any other user, certainly didn’t cancel the task. So what happened? I took a look through the (horrendous) hostd.log on the ESXi box and found absolutely nothing of any value. Frustrated by the inability to redeploy a template I spent so long preparing, I broke open the OVA template and took a look inside. There were three files with different extensions, .ova - OVF descriptor, written in XML, which describes the hardware requirements .mf – contains SHA1 checksums of the .OVA and .VMDK .vmdk – the virtual hard disk for the…

The Pirate Bay's .sx was seized this morning, and the site has relocated to thepiratebay.ac. The .AC top-level domain is controlled by Ascension Islands, a UK territory, and a Pirate Bay spokesperson announced that the change was only temporary, with another new domain (.pe, in Peru) in the wings. This is the fifth time that The Pirate Bay had its domain seized in 2013.   The Pirate Bay, meanwhile, continues to be accessible through the new .AC domain, although only briefly since the ccTLD is UK controlled. “The AC domain is directly connected to the UK, so it’s just a quick stop there,” a Pirate Bay insider told us. After solving some technical issues the infamous torrent site plans to move to the Peruvian .PE ccTLD. ThePirateBay.pe will be the fifth domain name for The Pirate Bay in 2013. Fearing a domain seizure by the Swedish authorities The Pirate Bay quickly switched to a Greenland-based domain in April, later hopping to Iceland, and eventually landing .SX domains as other problems became apparent. The Pirate Bay hopes for a longer stay at the PE domain, but the site’s operators still have a few dozen domain names backed up if required. Following pressure from the entertainment industry the domain registry of Sint Maarten appears to have seized The Pirate Bay’s .SX domain name. The torrent site itself hasn’t been taken down and has quickly relocated to a new address on Ascension Island’s .AC ccTLD. The Pirate Bay team informs TorrentFreak that this UK-controlled domain isn’t their final destination and they will sail to a…

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sometimes when we excute "apt-get update", we get this error "W: GPG error: http://extras.ubuntu.com precise Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" . This is caused by a missing key. We can just simply excute the following to solve the problem. apt-get update 2> /tmp/keymissing; for key in $(grep "NO_PUBKEY" /tmp/keymissing |sed "s/.*NO_PUBKEY //"); do echo -e "\nProcessing key: $key"; gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv $key && sudo gpg --export --armor $key | apt-key add -; done