Well, since im here

Since im still online and dead bored (nothing new/interesting on rotten, dailywtf, slashdot and everyone on my forums is asleep), i figured i might as well post.
I just upgraded drupal, do you like the new look ?
I know - i need to change the logo, i might even change the icon too this time ;P
It put up quite a fight thou :)
Especially integrating it with the gallery.
I had to input the links to the modules by hand, because it looked like shit once you tried to enter it.
No that i had a lot of content, but the little content i have here is pretty precous to me.

Im netcating a 125gig partition over a 100mbs link so i have some time atm (being the only available person with admin privs sucks) - using the outlines from http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Backup#netcat_.2B_dd.
You have to give it to the gentoo people - they know how to make a wiki.
The server had to be put down (apache, mysql, proftpd pretty much leaving only bind and ssh).
Im currently at 100gig so i still have about half an hour.
I pray the server doesnt go down - im making the image because its under too much load and the drives might fail at any time.
Should you ever do this (netcat /dev/sda), dont gzip it on the fly.
The average compression ratio is about 20% for a raw disk image, and gzip doesnt use threads like it should so it only takes up one cpu.
That gives you a significant slow down, with almost no space gain.
Its counterintiutive - i know, but the fact that gzip uses up only one cpu at 100%, gives you a slowdown to about 4/5 megs/s, while you almost certainly get about 14 megs if you dont compress.
And i wanna get some sleep tonight so the 20% isnt worth it.
I found a nice tool that does use the smp that most servers provide, but its pretty outdated and im not sure i can trust it.
I wonder how im going to move the image to a usb drive ;P
The ones we have are about 140 gig, and usually have to contain something more then just one backup ;P
Probably gonna have to go and wipe the current backups this week.
We setup a nice 2tb backup machine in the company for local backups and our main server backups.
Its working great, and its amazing how much ive transfered to it in the week ive been here.
It may not be much for you, but for me handling 700gigs of data is a pretty nice feat :)

Im fairly certain noone is reading this blog.
The most hits i get come from googlebot :P
But ive setup google's stats, so that i can keep track of things.
We shall see.

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(no, im not using drupal anymore....)