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Episode 6 - Santa Ate My Drupal Backups by Linux Basement

Linux Basement News:

The Torrent will be up for one more week. Thanks to all the seeders! A couple new features on the site. Lots of good new stuff in the forum. Sound off as to what type of music you like.

In the News:

Yale opens up a bunch of its courses, but no Computer courses?
open.yale.edu

Canonical opens Bazaar 1.0

http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/latest/en/mini-tutorial/index.html

 

Tips and Tricks: 

sudo apt-get install xsnow

A listener tip from Brandon over at Linux Resonance.

Some questions answered and more raised about running your own web server.

 

IP tables examples

Backup Solutions:

Manually backup using rsync and phpmyadmin

Use a script and rsync over ssh with a shared key.

Create your own backup script here:

http://bash.cyberciti.biz/backup/wizard-ftp-script.php

Tutorial:

Customizing Drupal Part 3 - Blocks and Menus