Month: September 2010

How To Backup an SVN Server for Windows

September 15, 2010

Being relatively novice to SVN, I needed to backup a recent installation. I found a couple of great scripts that was described for Linux, however, will work for Windows with additional software that is described in this article. Dump the repository to a file. Or dump the repository to a compressed file. This requires gzip for Windows. Or dump the…

Apache Logs Fail to Logrotate – RESOLVED

September 7, 2010

A server running Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.5 after a period of time of successful logrotation, failed to logrotate the Apache logs. The Apache logs grew into the GBs. There didn’t seem to be any apparant or logical reason for this behavior, as the logrotation scripts were identical to other comparable servers. However, a command to debug logrotate may…