My backup strategy
Recently I’ve had to re-engineer my whole backup strategy because of a looming hardware issue on my old backup server. Since I am operating servers at Hetzner, I purchased some backup space there and...
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Inspecting logfiles on the commandline
One of my most used means of monitoring what’s going on at a remote Linux server, is looking at the log lines that each daemon or client program writes to the disk. Using this technique you can see a...
View ArticleWaiting for a server
Today two of my servers went down. It turned out, that the datacenter they are hosted in had a slight connectivity hiccup – nothing serious. While I was battling my monitoring system and frantically...
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Set tmux pane title on SSH connections
I am frequently connecting to several servers over SSH at once and like to use tmux to organize those different sessions. To be able to keep track which pane is which server I am using the following...
View ArticleMy dotfiles
My configuration for bash, vim, git, tmux and a few other tools can be found on GitHub now. I have spent a considerable amount of time to get them working on OS X and Linux. (Tested on Mac OS X...
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New 42dev hosting products
I’ve recently formalized the hosting packages of my company 42dev. If you are ever in need of professional website– or domain hosting, want to set up some email accounts or need a fully managed server,...
View ArticleMella – ownCloud upload in bash
I recently had the need to upload some backup files in a cron job to an ownCloud server via bash. Since I couldn’t find any good solutions to do that on the web, I crafted my own script which I open...
View ArticleProxmox on Debian at Hetzner with multiple IP addresses
I’ve spent most of my day today trying a plethora of different ways on how to configure Proxmox on a Hetzner server with multiple IP addresses. Most of the tutorials I found online gave a good deal of...
View ArticleA clean start – How to prepare a minimal Debian template for LXC containers
In my recent push for more virtualization I sat down today and constructed a very minimal Debian template that only has the bare necessities installed to be able to communicate on the network and...
View ArticleCentralized logging with rsyslog
If you want a good overview over your infrastructure but don’t feel the need to install extra software like Logstash, Fluentd or Graylog there is an easy way to achieve a centralized logging facility...
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