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Howto: Backup and restore your system! – Ubuntu Forums

by adminNovember 8, 2009 Settings

Howto: Backup and restore your system! – Ubuntu Forums.

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Ubuntu server distro direct-upgrade

by JCOctober 5, 2008 Settings

You can upgrade your entire Ubuntu server from one revision to another with dist-upgrade.
First, you must ensure the new version repositories replace the existing repositories in your server’s /etc/apt/sources.list, then simply issue the apt-get update.
Finally, perform the actual upgrade by typing:
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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Slicehost: a quick, fun way to learn Linux server administration

by JCSeptember 17, 2008 Rocket Fuel

I’ve learnt quite a lot about Linux server administration in the last year or so. I had found this subject complicated and inaccessible, but recently it’s been a lot more fun and easy to understand. This is entirely due to Slicehost, my all-time favourite hosting company.
Slicehost offer basic ’slices’ (IP address, storage, bandwidth and RAM) [...]

Tagged as: linux, server admin, slicehost, sys admin

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Rotate Apache log files on Ubuntu Hardy Heron server

by JCSeptember 16, 2008 Settings

Ubuntu Hardy Heron Server comes pre-installed with a program called logrotate.d. Once you understand how this works log rotation for your Virtual Hosts is easy.
First, edit the log rotation parameters:
sudo nano /etc/logrotate.d/apache2
The standard contents of this file is:
/var/log/apache2/*.log {
weekly
missingok
rotate 52
compress
delaycompress
notifempty
create 640 root adm
sharedscripts
postrotate
if [ -f /var/run/apache2.pid ]; then
/etc/init.d/apache2 restart > /dev/null
fi
endscript
}
I simply copy and paste [...]

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How to change time-zone on a Linux server

by adminMarch 4, 2008 Settings

We run multiple websites on multiple servers so it’s fairly important that we can synchronise the time-zones on all these different boxes.
We found the Linux process of changing time-zone a little quirky, so we thought we would note it down here for future reference.
I think the following applies to most flavours of Linux, but we’re [...]

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