Comments on: Smart LAMP Application Backups using Amazon’s S3 http://www.techkismet.com/tech-ramblings/smart_lamp_backups_using_s3.html the ramblings and nonsense of Alvin Kreitman... Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:23:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: tardigrade http://www.techkismet.com/tech-ramblings/smart_lamp_backups_using_s3.html#comment-281 tardigrade Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:13:06 +0000 http://www.techkismet.com/tech-ramblings/smart_lamp_backups_using_s3.html#comment-281 Thanks for putting the script together and sharing it. The transmission script in particular has been really useful. I was struggling with finding a script to help me back up my virtual servers tar's to s3. The s3-bash makes everything a lot simpler and your transmission script is the icing on the cake that I needed! Many thanks. Thanks for putting the script together and sharing it. The transmission script in particular has been really useful. I was struggling with finding a script to help me back up my virtual servers tar’s to s3. The s3-bash makes everything a lot simpler and your transmission script is the icing on the cake that I needed!

Many thanks.

]]> By: Alvin Kreitman http://www.techkismet.com/tech-ramblings/smart_lamp_backups_using_s3.html#comment-166 Alvin Kreitman Mon, 05 May 2008 11:49:49 +0000 http://www.techkismet.com/tech-ramblings/smart_lamp_backups_using_s3.html#comment-166 Calvin: I'm sorry for the major delay in replying to you comment. It got lost in a bevy of SPAM comments and I didn't notice it till just today. So the answer to your question is that dev/null is a nice place to put all standard output - so when this runs as a cron job - I don't get emails detailing every little thing. The later part of the command - 2>&1 simply tells the command to redirect all error output to standard output - so that is also not displayed on the screen. See a good description of this technique here: http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/06/06/what-does-devnull-21-mean/ Calvin: I’m sorry for the major delay in replying to you comment. It got lost in a bevy of SPAM comments and I didn’t notice it till just today. So the answer to your question is that dev/null is a nice place to put all standard output - so when this runs as a cron job - I don’t get emails detailing every little thing. The later part of the command - 2>&1 simply tells the command to redirect all error output to standard output - so that is also not displayed on the screen. See a good description of this technique here: http://www.xaprb.com/blog/2006/06/06/what-does-devnull-21-mean/

]]> By: Calvin http://www.techkismet.com/tech-ramblings/smart_lamp_backups_using_s3.html#comment-108 Calvin Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:00:57 +0000 http://www.techkismet.com/tech-ramblings/smart_lamp_backups_using_s3.html#comment-108 Sorry mine is not a coment, rather a question. Why do you first redirect to /dev/null and then to $1?.. Sorry mine is not a coment, rather a question.

Why do you first redirect to /dev/null and then to $1?..

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