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Consistent MySQL backups using ZFS snapshots

It should come as no surprise to readers of this blog that I really like ZFS. Personally I think it is one of the biggest developments in file system design in many many years. One place where I’ve started to use it recently on my own home server is to make instant and consistent backups […]

August 13th, 2007 | Posted in Backups, Cron, Monitoring, MySQL, OpenSolaris, SMF, Scripts, Solaris, zfs | 6 Comments

Using at to schedule scripts

If you have some basic knowledge of UNIX you probably know about cron. But have you heard about at?
at is very similar to cron. You use it to schedule to run a program/script/command once at a specific time. A very basic example would look like this

$ at now
> date >/var/tmp/date.output
> ^D
job 1 at Mon Jun […]

June 4th, 2007 | Posted in Cron, OpenSolaris, Scripts, Solaris, UNIX | No Comments