Author: Zachary Winnerman

Introduction In many database builds, backups pose a very large problem. Most backup systems require an exclusive table lock and don’t have any support for incremental backups; they require a full backup every time. When database sizes grow to several…

Cron is not standard! Most distributions treat cron as if it were a standard, but almost no two distributions actually use the same cron daemon. Debian uses Dillon’s Cron which places an emphasis on being lightweight. CentOS uses Vixie Cron…