I’m running a Macedonian e-date site (www.ergeni.com.mk) as a small project just for fun and it’s running on Ubuntu Machine. I need backup offcourse and found a nice script. I’m not the author of this script and i’m not interested in taking credit for it. It works fine and is fast. Just edit the variables and run the script.

#!/bin/sh
# System + MySQL backup script
# Full backup day - Sun (rest of the day do incremental backup)
# Copyright (c) 2005-2006 nixCraft <http://www.cyberciti.biz/fb/>
# This script is licensed under GNU GPL version 2.0 or above
# Automatically generated by http://bash.cyberciti.biz/backup/wizard-ftp-script.php
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------
### System Setup ###
DIRS="/home /etc /var/www"
BACKUP=/tmp/backup.$$
NOW=$(date +"%y-%m-%d")
INCFILE="/root/tar-inc-backup.dat"
DAY=$(date +"%a")
FULLBACKUP="Sun"
### MySQL Setup ###
MUSER="mysql-user"
MPASS="mysql-password"
MHOST="localhost"
MYSQL="$(which mysql)"
MYSQLDUMP="$(which mysqldump)"
GZIP="$(which gzip)"
### FTP server Setup ###
FTPD="/ergeni"
FTPU="ftp-username"
FTPP="ftp-password"
FTPS="ftp-hostname"
NCFTP="$(which ncftpput)"
### Other stuff ###
EMAILID="nisse@nissesblog.se"
### Start Backup for file system ###
[ ! -d $BACKUP ] && mkdir -p $BACKUP || :
### See if we want to make a full backup ###
if [ "$DAY" == "$FULLBACKUP" ]; then
  FTPD="/home/vivek/full"
  FILE="fs-full-$NOW.tar.gz"
  tar -zcvf $BACKUP/$FILE $DIRS
else
  i=$(date +"%Hh%Mm%Ss")
  FILE="fs-i-$NOW-$i.tar.gz"
  tar -g $INCFILE -zcvf $BACKUP/$FILE $DIRS
fi
### Start MySQL Backup ###
# Get all databases name
DBS="$($MYSQL -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS -Bse 'show databases')"
for db in $DBS
do
 FILE=$BACKUP/mysql-$db.$NOW-$(date +"%T").gz
 $MYSQLDUMP -u $MUSER -h $MHOST -p$MPASS $db | $GZIP -9 > $FILE
done
### Dump backup using FTP ###
#Start FTP backup using ncftp
ncftp -u"$FTPU" -p"$FTPP" $FTPS<<EOF
mkdir $FTPD
mkdir $FTPD/$NOW
cd $FTPD/$NOW
lcd $BACKUP
mput *
quit
EOF
### Find out if ftp backup failed or not ###
if [ "$?" == "0" ]; then
 rm -f $BACKUP/*
else
 T=/tmp/backup.fail
 echo "Date: $(date)">$T
 echo "Hostname: $(hostname)" >>$T
 echo "Backup failed" >>$T
 mail  -s "BACKUP FAILED" "$EMAILID" <$T
 rm -f $T
fi

Then you need to add this job to crontab. Run the following command.

crontab –e

Add a new line to run the file at midnight.

@midnight /path/to/script.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

And there you go, a fully working backup system. To restor all you need to do is to extract the files from the ftp server to the same location.
Download the document below and edit.

backup-job.txt (1,97 kb)

If you see this post it means that BlogEngine.NET 1.6.0 is running and the hard part of creating your own blog is done. There is only a few things left to do.

Write Permissions

To be able to log in to the blog and writing posts, you need to enable write permissions on the App_Data folder. If you’re blog is hosted at a hosting provider, you can either log into your account’s admin page or call the support. You need write permissions on the App_Data folder because all posts, comments, and blog attachments are saved as XML files and placed in the App_Data folder. 

If you wish to use a database to to store your blog data, we still encourage you to enable this write access for an images you may wish to store for your blog posts.  If you are interested in using Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, VistaDB, or other databases, please see the BlogEngine wiki to get started.

Security

When you’ve got write permissions to the App_Data folder, you need to change the username and password. Find the sign-in link located either at the bottom or top of the page depending on your current theme and click it. Now enter “admin” in both the username and password fields and click the button. You will now see an admin menu appear. It has a link to the “Users” admin page. From there you can change the username and password.  Passwords are hashed by default so if you lose your password, please see the BlogEngine wiki for information on recovery.

Configuration and Profile

Now that you have your blog secured, take a look through the settings and give your new blog a title.  BlogEngine.NET 1.4 is set up to take full advantage of of many semantic formats and technologies such as FOAF, SIOC and APML. It means that the content stored in your BlogEngine.NET installation will be fully portable and auto-discoverable.  Be sure to fill in your author profile to take better advantage of this.

Themes and Widgets

One last thing to consider is customizing the look of your blog.  We have a few themes available right out of the box including two fully setup to use our new widget framework.  The widget framework allows drop and drag placement on your side bar as well as editing and configuration right in the widget while you are logged in.  Be sure to check out our home page for more theme choices and downloadable widgets to add to your blog.

On the web

You can find BlogEngine.NET on the official website. Here you’ll find tutorials, documentation, tips and tricks and much more. The ongoing development of BlogEngine.NET can be followed at CodePlex where the daily builds will be published for anyone to download.

Good luck and happy writing.

The BlogEngine.NET team

For troubbleshooting it could come in handy to send an e-mail with telnet. It’s easy as pie.

Start with running telnet and connecting to a smtp-server.

telnet smtp.microsoft.com 25

Then you get some text back “220 ESMTP”. You need to present yourself to the server. You need to give the server the domain of the email adress you are using as a sender.

HELO nissesblog.se

Start typing your from email

MAIL FROM:nisse@nissesblog.se

then the recipient.

RCPT TO:bill.gates@microsoft.com

Now we need to add som text to the message. you can also add a subject.

DATA
Hey Bill, could I have some of your money?
.
// note the single dot, it's needed to tell the server that this is the end of the message

Then all you need to do is to leave with:

QUIT

When you click the application you wish to uninstall in Add/remove programs under control panel you need to reset the folder views in vista. Follow these steps.

1. Open RegEdit
2. Browse to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Shell\
3. Remove Bags registry key
4. Remove BagMRU registry key
5. Close RegEdit
6. Log off, restart
7. Login and go to folder options, make sure remember each folder’s view settings
8. Restart computer.

This 8 steps is quite simple. I found the solution on this blog.

I’m developing an inventory software and I was using a listview component. But I do need to be able to change the sorting. Microsft have whitepaper on how to do this. Started reading and then gave up. Did a google search and found ObjectListView. Love at first sight!

This DLL-package is what I was looking for and it’s a really nice application. NOTE: This is an open source and is licensed under GPL

Since the getting started guide on their homepage is awsome i’ll just link to that page. Get it on!