Archive for the ‘Backup’ Category

Custom TextMate commands for ruby and scp

Monday, October 1st, 2007

If you're a Mac user and you're not using TextMate, then hurry up and join the bandwagon. This is a powerful text editor for Mac OSX, which I use for just about any type of project be it C#, Java, PHP, Perl or even COBOL. What makes this tool so ...

Problem solving in general and MQ 2195 reason codes

Friday, August 10th, 2007

So I spent the best part of a day assisting our sys admin and developer resolve MQ errors that a COBOL client was throwing when opening more than one concurrent connection to a clustered queue manager. Because the architecture had recently changed to a cluster, and my load harness was no ...

Using perl to get, put and delete on Amazon S3 storage

Monday, August 6th, 2007

Amazon web services development domain have provided some neat perl code here such that you can simply put, get or delete objects inside an Amazon S3 storage bucket with something like this: ./s3curl.pl --id=[aws-access-key-id] --key=[aws-secret-access-key] -- http://s3.amazonaws.com/[bucket-name]/[key-name] I modified the author's code to make it a bit more win32 friendly, as ...

Setting up Amazon S3 Storage on Windows …

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

If you are interested in using Amazon S3 as an alternative backup solution, you may need to move files from your windows box to the S3 storage account. In order to do this I recommend you use a version of rsync written in ruby. Detailed instructions can be found in this ...