Tag Archives: Sysadmin

Uptime Records

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

This makes me happy – to have 99% uptime over 3 years or so.
It also makes me sad – to have missed out beating my previous record.

chris@omicron ~ $ uprecords
# Uptime | System [...]

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File Synchronisation With Unison

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Unison is an application which allows files to be synchronised between local or remote directories. I find it incredibly useful for keeping my documents etc synchronised between my various computers. I use it for many things, including my ~70GB music collection so I can verify that it can handle large(ish) amounts of data.
Unison is cross [...]

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Spring WS, Tomcat 6, Java 6 – Problems & A Simple Solution

Friday, June 20th, 2008

I’ve been working on a project using Spring WS recently. During development I run/test webapps using the Maven Jetty plugin. All was well, everythings works as expected, and I was at a stage where I needed to deploy on a Tomcat 6 server for some larger scale testing. In the past I have had no [...]

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200+ Days Uptime

Friday, June 13th, 2008

I just noticed that my server has been up for over 200 days. I’m pretty sure that’s the longest it’s ever been up continuously. Most of the reboots have been for upgrades (or a hosting move) but there have been some problems along the way.
The box is now handling around 10GB of traffic every month, [...]

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