Netexpertise

Here’s a package managers basic commands quick reminder/comparative for (in this order) – Linux Debian/Ubuntu, – Linux Redhat/Suse and – Solaris/OpenSolaris.   rpm and dpkg are basic package managers while yum (rpm) and apt-get/aptitude (dpkg) manage dependancies and (online) repositories.   # List ALL installed packages dpkg –list rpm -qa | grep rpm pkginfo   [...]

Tags: apt-get, aptitude, debian, dpkg, linux, manager, package, redhat, rpm, solaris, suse, ubuntu

It is generally good practice to respect the two following points when backing up databases. The backup has to be: consistent fast Consistency is easily achieved putting a read lock on all tables beforehands. However, this isn’t always applied, and WILL definately lead to a database integrity problem at some stage. Once a lock has [...]

Tags: backup, fast, linux, lock, logical, LVM, manager, Mysql, snapshot, volume