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The duties of a system administrator are wide-ranging, and vary widely from one organization to another. Sysadmins are usually charged with installing, supporting, and maintaining servers or other computer systems, and planning for and responding to service outages and other problems. Other duties may include scripting or light programming, project management for systems-related projects, supervising or training computer operators, and being the consultant for computer problems beyond the knowledge of technical support staff. A System Administrator must demonstrate a blend of technical skills and responsibility. (wikipedia)

Web App: Database and Table Backup, Part 2

30-May-07

So now that you have backed up the necessary files and folders that comprise your web application, you need to back up the data from your MySQL database. A number of 3rd party database administration applications such as CocoaMySQL for Mac OS-X and SQLYog for Windows (and Linux, too) exist, but simply running the […]

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Web App: File and/or Directory Backup, Part 1

29-May-07

Sometimes, we find ourselves needing to backup files or directories from one server to another remotely. In this case, it’s not very practical to X- into the second server in order to get the data to it. Instead, we can use the cp copy command over ssh by simply typing scp (for “secure […]

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