Lesson Learned Why Backup Is Important

I have written some articles about how to do backup, and also realize that how important backup is. When things normally working you won't need the backup. But when shit happen, you will need your data so badly and otherwise the business will stop. So what happen yesterday wake me up and hit me very hard on how important the backup is.Yesterday our gateway server, it was run on Ubuntu desktop 11.04 with DHCP, DNS, Squid Cache and Router installed, the hard drive is suddenly stop working. Yes … Read more...

Beginners Guide: Backup And Restore Compressed MySQL Dump File

As you know your website data is stored in your database server, in this case is MySQL. To prevent disaster, backup your data regularly is a must for you and every website owner. There are many ways to backup MySQL data, one of them is using mysqldump to dump your MySQL data to a file.But mysqldump output is plaint text files with full of SQL commands. And in linux you can compress it using gzip with pipelining command.To backup and compress MySQL dump file:Explanation: the … Read more...

AutoMySQLBackup: Regularly Backup Your MySQL

If you have blogs or websites, you databases is one the most important thing. Your data will be store on your database, for this case it is MySQL. MySQL is a free database management system (DBMS) and bundled with Linux as LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). Because it is so important, then you have to regularly backup your data, as disaster recovery steps.Actually to backup MySQL data is not hard. There are many tools provide for free to backup with on single click. But sometimes you … Read more...

Export Your Google Wave Data To Google Doc

As you know Google will shutdown Google Wave soon. If you using Google Wave for a while and have important datas stored in your Wave, this is a good news for you. You can export your data directly to your Google Docs.All you need is to install Ferry bot to your Google Wave. Ferry bot is an extension to Google Wave to export Wave data securely to your Google Docs. Ferry also continues to sync waves after they have been exported, either automatically as they change or manually when you press a … Read more...

Save Your Text In Text Area On Firefox

Sometimes Mozilla Firefox close unexpectedly and restart by itself. Or some plugin made Firefox crazy and crash, usually Adobe Flash. Even you just do browsing, many ads use flash cookies and stored in your Firefox temporary folder. This will make your Firefox slower.Another thing that make your Firefox stop responding is javascript. WYSIWYG editor is one of them. Wordpress text editor using WYSIWYG. The most annoying thing is when you almost finish to write an article, Firefox crash and you … Read more...

[HowTo] Mirror Your Website With Rsync

For this couple weeks there are lot of changes on my blog. Start from being suspended because of high traffic, move to another hosting server and then optimize the blogs with caching to improve performance, and change themes to optimize for Internet Explorer. Since that i did a lot of backup before doing anything.I made a script to backup all files and database and upload to HotFile, you can read that post here. And now i rent another hosting server to mirror my website. So if something … Read more...

Backup Your Website Files To HotFile

Wise man said "Backup early, backup regularly!", you don't know when disaster come. Start from being hacked, data lost, account being suspended by your host provider and many more. Your visitor and your data is the most crucial thing. You need to keep your visitor and you have to keep your data save. And you have to backup regularly.There are many tools to backup your website and many online backup service start from free (but limited) and paid service (like Amazon S3). I couldn't afford to … Read more...

[HowTo] Backup Your Files And Upload To HotFile Or Rapidshare

There are lots of File server service in the internet. You can host your files for free. The biggest 2 are Rapidshare and Hotfile. They both offer free service to host your file. And for hotfile offer you affiliate that you can earn money per 1000 downloaded file. But for now i will talk about backing up your files using Rapidshare or Hotfile.I got this script from WJunction, and i feel it is a great script to share with you and this is a free script developed by the community. All the … Read more...

Backup All Your MySQL Database With One Script

MySQL is a relational database management system (RDMS), and one of the most powerful DBMS. Most of the websites including this blog using MySQL technology behind it. Since it free and it always bundled with the PHP and Linux, often it is called LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP). If you know a little about programming in PHP, MySQL skill is a must to you to learn.Okay i am not explaining what it MySQL, or what is SQL syntax. Now i just want to share with you a script to backup all the … Read more...