In previous tutorials we have look at managing LVM file-systems. In this article we will look at using snapshots with LVM to act as part of a backup solution. Maybe, you have a database or mail systems that have to be backup up but without special agents that may be costly they cannot be backed […]
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Creating compressed File-Systems in Linux with SquashFS
In this video we are going to take a quick look at the squashfs. This is a little like tar and gzip but with the added advantage that we are creating a compressed filesystem that can be mounted. The complete filesystem is stored in a single file and can be mounted similarly to an ISO […]
Understanding Linux File-Systems and a quick look at XFS
In this article we take a quick tour of the file systems available in SUSE Linux. Each filesystem has its own advantages and disadvantages and of course some people will always favour one system over another. Ext3 is the default file system in SUSE SLES 11 currently in both SP1 and the beta release of […]
SAMBA – Management with YaST on SUSE
If you are using openSUSE or SUSE Enterprise then if you wish you may use the graphical YaST control panel to manage most elements of the SAMBA server. In this example we set the SAMBA server up from scratch using YaST. We just have to add users to the database from the command line. We […]
Using mod_rewrite with Apache HTTPD server so users can omit file extensions
The first thing to understand it that we will never understand users, so when we have requests that users forget to add the html extension to the end of web addresses we should really think that we were wrong to expect that they would. It can be an easy job with Apache to create rewrite […]
Apache – Time based redirections
In this tutorial we are using the Apache HTTPD server on SUSE Linux and we use the example of wanting to display a different support page when the support desk is open to when it is closed. This can be achieved using the rewrite module in apache. In SUSE we enable the module in /etc/sysconfig/apache2, […]