New theme!
As you can see, I've got a new theme! "Not another one," I hear you say? Allow me to explain why it's great...
Welcome to my blog
I promise I won't update it very often. Again.
Pike Place Market
Last Tuesday we were in Seattle for some work, and we took time to visit Seattle's Pike Place Market - a haven for hippies, bakers, and crab-chucking fishmongers.
Local "Time Machine" backups of remote systems with rsync
The Problem: I need to backup remote websites that have lots of files. I want to have incremental snapshots, so that I can have multiple backups of the same site without wasting lots of disk space. In other words, I want Apple's Time Machine for websites.
The Solution: I knew that the familiar rsync program could copy files from a server to my home computer. So I Googled and came across Michael Jakl's excellent Time Machine for every Unix out there. I've expanded his script and provided my results here, so that you can use it too. Read on for more info, and to download the script.
[Updated] Mucking about with email
After messing around with lots of fun configuration, I think my email system is working properly. I'm using a combination of Postfix, Dovecot, MySQL, RoundCube, and OpenLDAP to provide email services for johnwoltman.com. This lets me use a better webmail client than 1and1's craptastic "WebMail 2.0," and I can do do away with quotas because there's so few actual mailboxes.
Utah
On October 4th, EB and I flew to Salt Lake City, UT. We took pictures!