The Boundingbox

The third level in backup security and one of the most important is to be able to store backups in a place different than the production place, well known as Keep backups off-site. Currently taking advantage of free services like gmail, it´s much easier to fulfill this third level of backup security and to have all your backups available through an internet connection. Here I show a homemade script that does the following steps.

1. Compress your web server, database and svn repository
2. Encrypt compressed files with openssl
3. Send those files to a gmail account
4. Clean gmail account removing old backups

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1. Do you want to edit files on your remote linux server from your windows desktop using your favorite editor (Crimson Editor may be)?
2. Have your linux server already an SSH server properly configured?
3. Is your linux configuration mana low?(WOW addicts will understand this question)
4. If you have answered YES to all the former questions, this blog entry may be helpful for you.

After several internet searches I found that the free software, WinSCP, the one that I use to copy files from/to linux, currently support this feature for any editor and also works great with Crimson editor, enabling remote editing almost transparently. When you edit a remote file, it opens one temporary file in your local machine and monitors the file status, updating the remote file when any change is detected.
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This is the key feature for my next sad and freak project. I need a webcam working on my linux server. I’ve failed several times to configure it properly, but I finally achieved it. Here you will find how to configure a Logitech Quickcam Chat on an Etch Debian.
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Time to store the data. Being able to sense the temperature it’s just the first step, storing and plotting the resulting data is the power, muhahaha, muhahaha
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With the temperature sensor ready to be tested, I need them to be on all the day and a PC storing the temperature values. My laptop is too lazy, always hibernating as soon as I leave it alone. But what about my Linux server? He is always on, with its low consumption VIA processor and 5 free USB connections. That’s my target.
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