What’s the use of backups if you can’t restore from them? In the previous post on “Backup Xen with LVM and Rsnapshot” we worked on creating backups of Xen (guest/domain) VMs with LVM, and here we’ll cover the process of restoring from these backups. What is covered here: Restoring specific files or directories Doing “bare-metal” type of restore. We...
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This is a draft of my installation process which is mainly based from this blog:  Efficient Xen Backups Using LVM and Rsnapshot. Our setup is on Debian 6 server with 2TB disk running 10 vpses. We followed the above guide with notes on errors we encountered, mostly rsnapshot related. We are keeping daily backup locally, on a separate partition, and copies them to our remote server every...
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I can’t find commands in gitolite to manage repository or project name, so here’s what I got from other sources. Add or create repository Add entry for new project or repository in your gitolite config (conf/gitolite.conf) Commit and push your changes. this will create and initialize your new repo. Rename a repository Modify the name of repo in your gitolite config...
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Here’s a summary for vsftpd setup with virtual user and directory in Debian. It’s probably the same process on other Debian-based distros as well as Redhat-based distros. No need to define what’s vsftpd and what’s virtual users – let’s just proceed to the setup. Install VSFTPD: aptitude install vsftpd Choose what method to use for virtual user...
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Yum Error: There are unfinished transactions remaining. You might consider running yum-complete-transaction first to finish them. With unfinished transactions, yum refers to any incomplete or aborted transactions, such as package installations or updates. Obviously, yum wants you to run yum-complete-transaction command to fix the problem. If you can’t find yum-complete-transaction on your...
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