Archive for the 'Downtime' Category

Are You Creating Checklists?

I’m a true believer in checklists for everything. I use the Getting Things Done framework both in my professional and personal life. But I’m not going to talk about that kind of checklists.
Most sysadmins I know use checklists for their daily work, especially if there is critical work to be done. In particular for systems […]

November 21st, 2007 | Posted in Downtime, GTD, General, Sysadmin, System Administration | 4 Comments

Reduce Downtime with rsync

rsync is one of those tools that you find new uses for every day. It is really just a fancy file mover but it has an amazing feature set. Among other things You can control bandwidth usage, resume operations, copy files over ssh and include and exclude files as you like.
In The Practice of System […]

July 6th, 2007 | Posted in Backups, Downtime, Sysadmin, System Administration, UNIX, rsync | No Comments