Recently a friend of mine (Sarah) purchased a dedicated server at a hosting company and moved her data to it. Obviously she was in need of a backup solution. She chose Amanda 2.6.0 and to use S3 as her “tape” choice.
Seeing how well it worked for her I asked her to show me how it worked and now my server is also using Amanda to backup to S3. Recovery works with amrecover.
I have quite a bit of data to back up (4.5GB in /home, for example) and with a home DSL connection it takes a long time. However with a bigger pipe using S3 and Amanda would be extremely viable.
I’m very happy with the solution and will likely use it across all of my servers from now on.
For my laptop I’m still using JungleDisk, which seems to work fine. 2.0 is a very good improvement.
Just a quick note. There’s a new Reve gem out as of June 7th. This one’s release notes are:
- Typo fix in Reve::Classes::MapKill - shipJills -> shipKills
- Resolve trac ticket 3 (lowercase field names in postfields method)
- Update documentation to make ‘charid’ more consistantly ‘characterid’
- Resolve trac ticket 2 (Reve does not use @charid, but takes it as an argument in initialize)
- Be strict about currentTime’s casing.
The code changes can be seen At the Reve Trac.
Yesterday we launched Mini Match, an application me and my colleagues from work wrote for Cartoon Network.
Late last year we opened a beta that was, unfortunately, short lived. Friday (May 30, 2008) we opened the system up on a much improved codebase for a few hours and had all systems “green”. Based on the positive success from Friday we opened it up yesterday.
It opened slowly at first with just a small advertisement on the Cartoon Network Games’ Page, and then a larger one on the same page and then we made the Cartoon Network home page with a small advertisement again. Today, I reckon, a larger advertisement will be put on the front page and we’ll really start to see traffic!
Some details on the application:
- Flash/Flex/AS/Whatever front-end GUI (really, it’s one of them)
- Java-based persistance server
- Rails-based funnel into the database with a bit of logic.
The Rails part is RESTful (for the most part) and is the “glue” of the application, to quote someone from IRC.
Today should be a fun day!
